Description

In the entry for:- SEDLESCOMBE POWDER MILL LANE
Jacobs Farmhouse

43/11

The list description should be amended to read:-

House. Core contains remains of mid C14 timberframed open hall with
late C16 or early C17 floor joists and chimney breasts, extended and
refaced in the mid C18 with early C19 extensions to form a U shape at
the back, some C19 and C20 refenestration and small C20 extension to
rear. Mainly tile hung but part brick with tiled roof and brick chimney
stacks. Front range tile hung with half hipped roof to right hand side.
2 storeys and attics 5 windows 3 triple gabled dormers, moulded wooden
eaves cornice. Irregular fenestration of mainly C20 mullioned and transomed
windows but ground floor has to extreme left a 16-pane sash and to right
of this a 12-paned sash central ground floor window is a mid C19 tripartite
window with verticals only. Off central C20 door. Left side gable is
tile hung with 2 C20 mullioned and transomed windows to 1st floor. Ground
floor has casement with leaded lights and pintle hinges, to left is a
two bay addition with 1 gabled tile hung dormer and 2 C20 mullioned and
transomed casements. Early C19 lean-to addition built on in Stretcher
bond with C20 brick extension in Sussex bond to extreme left. Right
side gable of front range is tile hung with a base partly of sandstone.
Half hipped gable. Casement to attic and 1 circular window to ground
floor. Three-light C20 casement and wooden framed, leased window to
basement. To the right hand side is a smaller half-hipped gable at 1
bay in English garden wall bond to ground floor and Stretcher bond to
1st floor. Modillion eaves cornice. 1 cambered sash above. Adjoining
this is a 3 bay addition in Sussex bond having 3 C20 casements with cambered
head linings, plank door with cambered head lining and cemented plinth.
The interior of the courtyard is of early C19 Sussex bond brickwork with
brick modillion cornice. Ground floor has 2 early C19 casements to left
with leaded ground floor room has dais beam to original open hall with
braltishing, roll moulding and run out stops assigned as median date
of C1360 by carbon dating. One part has been cut through to take a grand-
father clock. This room also has a late C16 or early C17 inserted ceiling
with axial beam with 2½ inch wide chamber and timber tongue steps and
straight cut joists. Wide wooden bressumer over chimney breast which
in the C18 has reduced to form a small brick chimney. Ground floor room
to end right has thick separate ceiling beams and large wooden bressumer
to fireplace. Above ground floor the house appears largely altered in
C18 with jowled posts with cut profile, some stick balusters to 1st floor
and a through pulin roof with collars and plank doors to attic.

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TQ 7818-7918 SEDLESCOMBE POWDERMILL LANE

43/11 Jacob's Farmhouse

II

L-shaped C18 house. Two storeys and attic. Five windows. Three dormers.
Tile-hung. Tiled roof. Miscellaneous windows including two sashes with glazing
bars.

Listing NGR: TQ7948118991

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516363

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