Description

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

1/105 Dean Farm

II*

Farmhouse. C15, with C14 or earlier undercroft, and C17, C18 and
C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor of central section
red and grey brick in stretcher bond to left of porch, English bond
to central section and Flemish bond to right end. Broadly-spaced
framing with red and grey brick infilling with herringbone top courses,
to first floor. Left addition red brick in Flemish bond to both floors.
Plain tile roof. Open hall of two unequal-length timber-framed bays,
with storeyed end bays. Stone undercroft, orginally of at least two
bays, apparently related to an earlier cross-wing or building at right-
angles, under left end timber-framed bay. Left end addition probably
of C17 origin, replaced or refaced in C19. Main range 1½ storeys,
left addition 2 storeys. Flint plinth with brick top course, to storeyed
left end bay (on account of slope). Underbuilt gable-end jetty to
right. Left addition has higher eaves but same ridge line as main
range. Roof hipped to left and right. Red brick gable-end stack
to left. Filleted multiflue brick ridge stack spanning junction of
main range and left addition. Brick stack in front slope of roof,
to right end of right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of four windows;
one four-paned sash in open box to left addition, one through dormer
with hipped roof and three-light casement to left end bay, one small
hipped two-light eaves dormer to left hall bay and another to right
end bay. Head of hall window, with pegged king mullion, framed by
two studs, under eaves towards right end of right hall bay. Rectangular
ground-floor bay window to left end bay, and canted bay window to
right of porch. Half-glazed door behind gabled red and grey brick
porch with round-headed outer doorway, to left end of left hall bay.
Boarded door with segmental head to right end. Brick lean-to to right
gable end. Interior: storeyed left end bray ceiled on ground floor,
but with mortices for diamond mullion window and shutter groove to
left gable end. Mortices for left end-of-hall partition. Moulded
and brattished right end-of-hall beam, morticed for partition with
doorway to rear end of it. Broad axial joists to right end bay, with
trimmer for stair-well parallel to rear wall, towards gable end.
Plain right end-of-hall crown post with foot braces, on arch-braced
tie-beam. Doubly hollow-chamfered -cambered central-truss tie-beam
with hollow-chamfered arch braces and moulded octagonal crown post.
C17 inserted hall floor with chamfered axial beam to each bay, chamfered
cross beam forming stack bay towards right end of hall, and ground-
floor partition framed with two panels to storey-height, under central
truss. Brick fireplace with cambered wooden bressumer to each side
of right stack. Small brick fireplace to left side. Ladder staircase
occupying right end stair-well. Quadripartite vault with plain-
chamfered ribs to front bay of undercroft, and springing for ribs
of nextbay to rear.

Listing NGR: TR1246446401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546011

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)