Description

FRITTENDEN MILL LANE TQ 8041-8141 (north side) 13/28 Cherry Tree Farmhouse 20.6.67 GV I House. C15 or earlier, extended C16 to C17 and c.1880 to rear. Timber framed and clad with weather boarding, with sections of red brick, and tile hung to return upper elevations. Extended with red brick to rear. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house, with cross-wings, extended to rear. Two storeys, with projecting jettied wing to left, and returned, on dragon posts, with gabled roof, and gabled wing to right. Stacks to rear, and clustered and moulded to centre right. Three 3 light C19 mullioned and transomed windows on 1st floor and single light to centre right over door. Two similar 3 light windows on ground floor, and 3 light wooden casement to left. Door of 4 panels and glazed upper panel to centre right with flat hood on brackets. C19 red brick and weather boarded rear wing and outshot. Interior: the frame shows signs of much altera- tion, especially in the roof, where at least 3 tie beams at the junction of hall and jettied cross-wing have been successively placed above each other. Tie beam and rafter roof throughout. Hall with brattished dais beam over vertical over- lapping timber screen, quirk and tongue stopped chamfered ceiling beams and large inglenook, round backed fireplace in right hand cross-wing, the upper room of this wing with C17 wainscotting, with fluted overmantel surround and raised panel, and early C17 door with moulded arcaded panels. Reputed to have come from old Frittenden House (demolished late C19), although as likely to be original to this building. Mullioned windows with shutter grooves remain, especially in jettied parlour wing.

Listing NGR: TQ8075341601

External Links

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