Description

SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MARGARET ST. MARGARET'S GREEN
TM 38 SW

4/71 Chestnut Cottage
-

- II

Former farmhouse. C16 and mid C17. 2 storeys, part with attic; 3-cell form.
Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles. An internal chimney-stack
with a plain red brick shaft. Old casement windows with pintle hinges: 3 3-
light and one small 2-light window to the upper floor, 3 3-light with transome
to the ground floor. 2 C20 plank doors under a lean-to pantiled roof. The
frame falls into 2, possibly 3, separate sections: later alterations to the
layout. The 2 central bays have only the main beam exposed. To the right of
the stack, the parlour has plain unchamfered joists and a main beam with very
widely cut ovolo-moulding and damaged leaf-stops. Very small main posts, but
the ceiling is not apparently inserted. Plain timber lintel to fireplace. In
the room above the parlour, an original upper ceiling with the same moulding;
fireplace with brick arch, decorated with plaster rustication; arched braces
to long and side walls; the roof above this section in 2 bays: clasped purlins
and arched windbraces, one to each bay, sloping towards the stack. At the
extreme left, a C17 addition has reused timbers, primary braces and bisected
studs; chamfered main beam with scroll-stop and groove,and unchamfered joists.

Listing NGR: TM3177683653

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635640

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)