Description

TL 39 NW WHITTLESEY ELDERNELL LANE
ELDERNELL

6/81 Flint Farmhouse

II

House of several building periods, but mainly late C17 or early C18 and
extended late C18. Original house timber framed, rendered with roof raised
in late C18 when parlour wing added. Steeply pitched, thatched roof, now
covered with corrugated iron. Ridge stack of yellow gault brick. Three bay,
lobby entry plan. Now two storeys. Two C19 windows at first floor and two
canted bays on either side of doorway to lobby entry. At the rear is a
framed and rendered, C18 addition, possibly a wash house. Thatched, steeply
pitched roof with later end stack. One storey and attic. In the late C18 a
parlour wing was added incorporating the left hand bay of the original
house. Gault brick, Flemish bond partly casing the original house. The roof
is hipped to the front. Two storeys. Segmental arches to two windows. In
the C19 a single kitchen range was added to the right hand of the original
house. Brick and thatched. Inside: Some of the panelling from the mid-late C18
house is in situ, and there is a mid C19 open-string staircase with column
balusters and moulded rail. Framing exposed in part internally including the
original wall plate and the later wall facing from the late C18 roof raise.
The C19 kitchen wing has its original oven and copper.

[Whittlesea and District Field Archaeology Unit]

Listing NGR: TL3196698713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26575921

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