Description

SOUTH ELMHAM ALL SAINTS' COMMON
TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS

4/23 All Saints' Cottage
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- II

Former farmhouse to Green Farm. Mid and late C16. 2 storeys; basic 2-cell
lobby-entrance plan, in 5 bays, with a service bay added in the late C16, and
a further mid-C20 extension, both at the south-west end. Timber-framed and
roughcast-rendered; plaintiled roof. 3-light and 2-light C20 casement windows
in traditional style. C20 porch and door. The internal chimney-stack has a
plain shaft of Tudor red bricks. Good studding exposed inside, with a middle
rail and cranked reversed braces, those in the side walls very large. In the
parlour, the main beams and joists both have multiple roll-mouldings; in the
hall, a main beam with plain chamfer and cut-off stops, and shaped post-heads.
One 3-light original window with mullions of octagonal section, and another
very small original opening, with a small bar only. The main part of the
house has a queen-post roof in 5 bays: queen-posts with shaped heads, cambered
collars, very thin braces; common rafters apparently renewed. The added later
bay has a much-altered clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM3426982235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635617

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  For the Record
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)