Description

RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET (NORTH WEST TM 07 NW SIDE) 1/166 Church Farm House and 29.7.55 Church Farm Cottage (formerly listed as Church Farm House) GV II House, now 2 dwellings. c.1500, stacks inserted, reroofed, altered and extended early C17, extended C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered with flint, clay lump and red brick additions. Steeply pitched machine pantiled roofs. 5 bays, fully storeyed 3 cell plan with narrow smoke bay and cross passage bay, continuously jettied to front and at upper end, stack inserted in smoke bay. 2 storeys. Ground floor: entrance into original cross passage with a C20 architraved door, hall and parlour to left have C20 15 pane bow windows, service bay to right has a 3-light part opening casement. Jetty to first floor which projects slightly less far in largely rebuilt cross passage and service bays, jetty steps down to a lower level with 2 curved brackets in service bay, 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, roof is lower over cross passage and service bays. In original smoke bay between hall and parlour is an axial ridge stack with 3 conjoined hexagonal shafts. To left return a brattished corner post with a large bracket to dragon beam, jettied left end with a small bracket to rear, a C20 bow window, 2 and 3-light casements, C17 brackets to exposed plates. Right or service end early C17 external stack with a rebuilt cap in a 1 storey C19 outbuilding, flint with red brick dressings, internal end stack, further right C20 addition with an entrance. To rear a lobby entrance to main range, 2-light casements; behind service bay a 2 bay, 2 storey, C17 dairy with exposed plates and purlins in a brick cased rear gable end; behind cross passage bay a 2 storey C19 clay lump addition with an internal end stack with a hexagonal shaft, an entrance in brick cased gable end with a shallow pitched roof. Interior: close studding of large scantling, hall has an axial binding beam and stop chamfered cross axial beams at ends with jowled storey posts of rebated section at upper end, a 3-light ovolo mullioned window opening with intermediate small diamond mullions; in parlour an C18 chamfered segmental headed fireplace; service end ovolo moulded fireplace bressumer and axial binding beam. First floor: 4-centred arched braces to stop chamfered cambered tie beams with mortices for crown posts and tension braces, arched braces in walling; parlour chamber end wall has a very large sill for an original oriel window, ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams. Good early C17 double butt purlin roof with cambered collars, upper windbraces; service and cross passage bays separately reroofed with cambered collars clasping purlins. C17 dairy wing has close studding with mid-rail, traces of 3 and 4-light diamond mullioned windows. (NMR 1970)

Listing NGR: TM0397675159

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