Description

MALDON

TL80NW BEELEIGH
574-1/1/223 Little Beeleigh Farmhouse
02/10/51

GV II

House, former farmhouse. C15, C16 and C17. Timber-framed and
rendered, some brick; with plain tile roofs and small
off-centre ridgeline stack.
PLAN: U-shaped complex with main north/south range, hipped to
the north and half-hipped to south. Cross-wing at north end
returns to gable at west and single-storey block at south end
of main range with gabled slate roof behind parapet; 2-storey
block to west of this has gable to east and is hipped to west
and continuing down as catslide over single-storey part.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellar. East front is
jettied with moulded bressumer and 2 original carved jetty
brackets. The timber-frame is exposed here with 4 small-paned
sash windows on the 1st floor. The ground floor has 2 similar
windows and a canted bay window with small-paned sash windows
and an off-centre door of 6 raised-and-fielded panels with
moulded architrave. Exposed timbers indicate a number of
former oriel windows, on each floor, frieze windows (some with
moulded mullions) and site of former 2-storey projecting porch
in front of cross passage.
Single-storey extension at S end of Flemish-bond brick with a
decorative parapet and small pointed-arched Gothick window,
door with segmental head and sash window. The rear elevation
has 2 door openings, C19 and C20 sash windows and casements
and part of frame exposed on rear of south-west block.
INTERIOR: reveals that northern cross-wing is mid C15 and of 2
bays, truncated to E as part of later works. A mid C16 long
wall jetty structure adjoins, with 2-bay hall/great chamber,
service bay of 2 rooms to S with small chamber over. The
service doors were separated by a panel of studwork. Structure
has jowled posts and crown-post roof with thin cranked
longitudinal braces to collar purlin.
SW block a truncated, 2-storey structure of mid C17 with good
quality framing. Spine beam and bridging joists, on ground
floor have ogee chamfers and similar above have stopped
quadrant chamfers. Probably a kitchen/utility block. Floor of
Flemish yellow floor bricks relaid C20. Early C19 staircase,
doors and architraves and typical fire surround with roundels
over pilasters. N ground-floor room has some C17 panelling.
Numerous C17 and C18 doors with contemporary ironwork.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: 1921-: 181:5).

Listing NGR: TL8303207285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548545

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)