Listed Building: BOARDS FARMHOUSE (280637)

OLD NEWTON SPIKES LANE, HAUGHLEY TM 06 SW WITH DAGWORTH 4/154 - Boards Farmhouse -- II Former farmhouse, late C16 with early C18 alterations. Originaly of 2-cell end-chimney plan; extended greatly to left in early C18. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof; an axial chimney of early C18 red brick, and internal gable chimneys to left and right. Five gabled casement dormers. 3-light mid C20 steel small-pane casements. A central C18 doorway at lobby-entrance position with eared architrave; C20 half-glazed panelled door. Further entrance doorways to left and right with similar but plain architraves. The original section has heavy plain C16 framing partially exposed; unchamfered floor joists laid flat, and concealed close-studding. In early C18 the house was extended and 3 cottages formed. The framing has lambstongue chamfered stops, and an ovolo-moulded beam is probably reused. A rear wing to right of red brick is of late C18/early C19 and a rear outshut was added later in C19 covering some good C18 cable-pattern pargetting on the old rear wall. Listing NGR: TM0458960679