Description

COWFOLD

TQ 2122 EASTLANDS LANE
965/26/10038 Eastlands Farm
31-JUL-00

II

House later converted into a barn. Circa 1374 four bay open hall house with two bay hall, converted into a barn c1585, extended by one bay to the west in later C17 and with C18 leanto added to east. Timberframed, clad in weatherboarding but south east side now covered in corrugated iron. Steeply pitched roof with gablet (formerly smoke hole) to east and half-hip to west. Central cart entrance with double doors. Top of wall plate above north cart doors retains triangular mullion holes to original hall window. Frame visible to north with midrail and arched braces. C18 leanto to east also timberframed, covered in corrugated iron with C20 brick east wall.
INTERIOR: Jowled upright posts, midrail and most curved tension braces survive. Eastern bay has triangular mullioned window surviving to north and holes to south. East end has passing braces and ground floor triangular mullion holes. Further mullion holes in western bay of hall house. Roof has three crownposts of square section, the central one to open hall having four headbraces to collar beam, the others having two head braces to collar beam and easternmost crownpost retains one of original pair of downbraces. Original rafters to three easternmost bay with two rafters remaining to westernmost bay. Many are soot-stained. C17 western bay has angled queen struts and through purlins. Open truss to former open hall has arch braces rising to the tie, a moulded fillet between the braces on the underside of the tie and a moulded 'pilaster' down the front. Original floors to end bays of hall house no longer present. East end has 6 C19 grain bins inserted with reused late C18 6-panelled doors. West end has C20 floor inserted.

[Unpublished report 'Eastlands Cowfold' by Annabelle F Hughes 1999.]

Listing NGR: TQ2180222112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661278

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)