Description

TL 41 NE HIGH WYCH SPELLBROOK LANE WEST
(west side)
Trims Green

4/44 Bursteads

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GV II

House. Circa 1600. Compact rectangular farmhouse of 2 storeys,
attics and cellar, with symmetrical front facing E. Manor house
of manor of Chamberlains alias Bursteads (VCH III (1912) 342:
ground plan and drawing of front, ibid). Timber frame on brick
base, walls plastered, upper part of gables weather boarded.
Steep old red tile roof, half-hipped at ends. Massive central
chimney, with 4 joined diagonal shafts above rectangular base,
rises through front slope of roof. Interesting symmetrical plan
foreshadowing the double pile plan. Depths of house unequally
divided into 2 deeper front rooms and 2 shallower service rooms
at rear. Spacious well stair at rear of chimneystack reached from
front entrance lobby by tunnel through stack. Ceiling beams
across front rooms out of line with separate beams across rear
rooms. Large rectangular rear kitchen wing at NW timberframed
and plastered above brick base. Large internal gable chimney
with pitched tile roofed brick oven projecting to W. Roof raised
in early C19 now slated. C19 brick single storey breakfast room
added in angle with rear wing. Symmetrical 2 window E front with
2 gabled dormers in roof-slope with 2-light Yorkshire sliding
casements. 2 3-light mullioned and transomed wooden casement
windows, and 2 small hipped roof C19 bay windows with similar
windows and sidelights. Central door with heavy frame. The butt
purlin roof is visible in the attics. 3 fine heavy vertically
moulded plank doors with iron furniture, 2 in stair lobby on
Ground floor and 1 on attic landing. Ovolo moulded 2-panelled
early C18 doors on 1st floor. Ceiling beams axial on 1st floor.
The house is a newly built timber structure of c.1600, and not an
adaptation of an older hall house as the measurements of the plan
might suggest.

Listing NGR: TL4763217223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515147

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)