Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING

TL60SW MILL GREEN ROAD
723-1/2/425 (South West side)
Nos.1 AND 2
Whitehouse Farm
GV II

House, now 2 houses. Mid-C16 and late C17, altered in early
C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade
red clay tiles. Mid-C16 cross-wing of 2 bays to left, late C17
main range of 3 bays to right, facing NE, on the site of a
former hall range, now all roofed as a continuous range.
C16/17 Stack in left bay of hall range behind axis, forming a
lobby-entrance (now to No.2, formerly to the whole house).
Divided through stack, No.1 to right, No.2 to left. Each has a
C20 lean-to extension to the rear.
2 Storeys and attics. Five C19/20 casements on each floor.
No.2 has an early C19 plain boarded door with simple canopy on
profiled brackets. No.1 has a similar door and canopy on the
right return. The wallplates of the cross-wing project through
the front elevation. Roof half-hipped at both ends. All other
windows are C19/20 casements.
INTERIOR: the cross-wing has an underbuilt jetty at the front,
a chamfered binding beam with step stops, and chamfered joists
of square and horizontal section with step stops, jointed to
it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches; the joists
bear clear assembly marks cut with a race knife, all numbering
I-VII from left to right. C20 grate in larger hearth. The
middle tie-beam has been raised above the wallplates, and may
be a C17 introduction, reused. C17 newel stair in front of
stack from ground to attic, complete. No.1 has in the right
bay a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and
chamfered joists of vertical section with convex stops. One
joist at left front is reduced from medieval timber, with the
diamond mortices of an unglazed window. C20 grate. The middle
bay has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and
plain joists of vertical section; a parallel beam at the rear
is a C20 insertion, blocking a former stair trap. Large
wood-burning hearth facing to right, reduced for a C20 grate,
and a cupboard to rear with an early C19 2-panel pine door.
Above the first floor each bay has a chamfered axial beam,
lamb's tongue stops in the middle bay, joists plastered to the
soffits. Butt-purlin roof, plasterd internally except the purlins.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house is well documented in the Petre
archives as Websters, Free House and Freelands. In a survey of
1556 the house was described as 40 feet long, 15 feet wide,

and 13 feet to the eaves, with a tiled roof. It is illustrated
in the Walker map of 1601 as a hall house with central door

and chimney, one window to each side, with a 2-storey

cross-wing to the left, the roofs tiled , at which time it was

in the occupation of William Griggs, with a holding of 21
acres.
(Essex Record Office: D/DP M.170 M96-101).

Listing NGR: TL6382201092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502857

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