Description

WILLISHAM HOLLY ROAD
TM 05 SE
2/163 Long Meadow
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- II

An early C16 3-cell open-hall house with alterations of early C17 and mid C20.
2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with axial C17 chimney
of red brick having sawtooth-pattern shaft; a C20 eyebrow casement dormer.
C20 casements with leaded glazing. C20 boarded entrance aoor; the large
suspended flat canopy has an arcaded soffit. An unusually complete example of
an open hall house, with framing fully exposed. The 2-bay hall is smoke-
blackened. It has an open truss with a cambered tie-beam and octagonal crown-
post with 2-way plank braces. Large blocked diamond-mullioned windows in the
hall; several others also survive from C16 and C17 phases. Close-studwork
with shortened arch-type wind-bracing. In C17, the parlour was enlarged and a
chimney built between it and the hall, with arched fireplaces to parlour and
chamber above, ana a lintelled opening in the hall. Upper floor inserted into
hall and into previously unfloored service-cell. The parlour chamber has C17
open truss of arch-braced collar-beam type. To right a lower range,(possibly
kitchen) was added in C17/C18 and largely rebuilt in C20.

Listing NGR: TM0651850057

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543547

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings