Description

TL 63 SW FINCHINGFIELD UPPER WALTHAM CROSS

4/96 Hawkin's Harvest
23.2.81 (Formerly listed under
Waltham's Cross)
- II

House. Mainly c.1600, with a fragment of a C15 house, extended in C20. Timber
framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5 bays facing NW, with
axial stack in second bay from left end, external stack at right end, and one
bay of a late medieval hall house to the rear of the left bay. Single-storey
lean-to extension in rear angle. Large C20 extension to left. 2 storeys.
Ground floor, 4 C20 casements. First floor, 6 C20 casements. C20 door in lean-
to porch. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Grouped diagonal shafts on main
stack. The single bay to the rear has a chamfered axial beam with step stops,
joists (plastered to the soffits) supported on pegged clamps, jowled posts, and
a roof rebuilt in the C17, with some re-used smoke-blackened rafters. The main
building has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops in the left bay, 2
chamfered transverse beams with bar stops in the right section, and plain joists
of horizontal section throughout. 2 large wood-burning hearths, the left hearth
having an oven door but no oven, the right hearth having a chamfered mantel beam
with bar stops. Jowled posts, heavy framing. Late C18 corner cupboard with
spherical top and shaped shelves, the latter slightly altered. RCHM 47.

Listing NGR: TL7004330567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26622172

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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