Listed Building: WOOD FARMHOUSE (282102)

TM 38 SE SPEXHALL STONE STREET 2/28 Wood Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Late C16. 2-storey main range, part with attics; 1½-storey section at-the east end. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles. An internal and end chimney-stack to the main range, both with plain shafts, the internal stack of reused Tudor bricks. Various old 3-light casement windows with transomes and pintle hinges; at the west end of the front and in the west gable, reinstated original windows with hollow-chamfer moulding to the mullions. 2 plank doors. The lower section on the east has 2 3-light C20 standard casement windows. The main range has a 3-cell plan originally with a cross-entry, but later with a lobby entrance; frame in 5 bays, including a chimney-bay. The framing is plain and substantial: main posts with shaped heads; reversed braces at the corners; evidence for a number of original diamond-mullioned windows: one of 5 lights and one of 4 lights on the rear upper wall have mullions in situ. 2 open fireplaces on the ground floor, both with plain lintels, in the hall with curved stops and jewel, in the parlour with scroll-stops; an upper fireplace above the parlour has traces of original plaster, coloured and tuck-pointed. Ceilings with plain joists set flat, chamfered main beams, curved stops with jewel. The cross-entry was divided from the hall by a plain plank screen, surviving in part. To the east of the cross entry a single large service room with a blocked stair trap and a later end chimney-stack. The room above, possibly used as a cheese chamber, seems to have been blocked off from the rest of the upper floor. The upper ceiling at the west end is original, with joists set flat, but above the 2-bay central room, now divided into 2, the joists are a later insertion, and are set on edge. The tie-beam of the open truss, in what is now a partition wall, has long arched braces. Roof with clasped purlins, one row of unstepped butt purlins and cranked windbraces. The lower section on the east; is in 2 bays of differing dates: one with very substantial, possibly reused, joists; the other, with much lighter and later framing, now open to the roof. In the kitchen, an old pump, reset from the former scullery, is dated 1839, with initials T.R The house stands sideways-on to the road. Listing NGR: TM3833882383