Description

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

Leigh Barton
1/110
29.12.66 II

Farmhouse. Early C16, with C17 and later alterations. C20 restor-ation
and addition. Timber framed. Painted brick infilling to ground floor
and part of first floor, rendered infilling to rest. Plain tile roof.
4 timber-framed bays; two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays. 1½
storeys, on rendered flint and brick plinth. Left end bay jettied
on solid-spandrel brackets, jetty returning along left gable end on
moulded dragon post. Facade of rest of house flush with first floor
of left end bay. Broadly-spaced studding, with virtually straight
arch braces to ground floor of left end bay, and tension braces to
first floor. Hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack to left end of right
hall bay. Three three-light eaves dormers with hipped plain tile
roofs, two to left and one to right of stack. Three leaded ground-
floor casements. Ribbed door in painted brick porch with applied
framing and gabled plain tile roof, under stack. Later (probably
C20) two-storey parallel rear range to hall and right end bay, and
similar single-storey addition to right of it. Interior: exposed
framing. Axial joists to left end bay, morticed for central partition,
and with stair trimmer along rear wall. Moulded and brattished left
end-of-hall beam with almost complete spear towards rear end and stump
of another towards front end. Soffit morticed for post and stave
partition with doorway towards each end. Chamfered hall window-cill
extending length of front wall of left hall bay, and another to rear
wall. Restored ceiling to right end room, but with slight evidence
for right gable-end jetty. Gunstock-jowled posts. Cambered central-
truss tie-beam. C20 roof. Chamfered axial beam and joists to inserted
hall floor. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers.

Listing NGR: TR1178645546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534690

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