Description

BUXHALL FEN STREET
TM 05 NW

2/28 Fen Farmhouse
-
- II

House, C16 in two stages. 3 cell plan with lobby-entrance. One storey and
attics. Timber-framed and plastered in roughcast panels. Thatched roof,
half-hipped to left and fully hipped to right. An axial chimney of red brick,
the shaft rebuilt C19, and an C18 external chimney to left. C19 eyebrow
casement dormers. 3-light C18 or early C19 casements with metal windows. C20
gabled plaintiled entrance porch with boarded and battened door. An early C16
core with 2 small cells has major alterations, including evidence for an
inserted upper floor. Fragments of an apparent timber-framed chimney. A
further bay was added to the left hand end in late C16; this work has tension-
braced studwork and base-crucks supporting the half-hip. Coupled-rafter roof
in 2 phases. A C18 or C19 lean-to extension to right, and a single-storey mid
C20 pantiled extension to rear.

Listing NGR: TM0010459158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478020

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings