Listed Building: WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE (280481)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 280481 |
Date assigned | 31 January 1990 |
Date last amended |
Description
The following buildings shall be added:
WORTHAM LONG GREEN
TM 07 NE (south side)
1/188 Walnut Tree Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid/late C16, with cross-wing probably of c.1600; raised
and re-roofed in mid C19; restored in 1989. Render over timber frame; hipped
pantile roof; brick ridge stacks. Plan: two-unit plan with cross passage to
left of central hall and with cross wing to right. 2 storeys; 6-window range.
Lean-to porch built 1989 at angle of 2 ranges. C20 casements. Interior:
exposed timber frame with closely-spaced studs, cranked tension braces and
jowled storey posts, survives up to wall-plate level; frame includes original
blocked windows, namely a blocked 4-light diamond-mullioned window to the front
first-floor room of the cross wing 2 mullioned windows of 3 and 4 lights and one
chamfered mullioned window of 4 lights to front first-floor wall and a chamfered
mullioned window of 4 lights to rear left. Central hall has stop-chamfered beam
and joists and C16 brick open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressummer; room to
left has a rare surviving C16 ladder stair with solid oak treads, and beams
chamfered an outer edge flanking narrow bay (possibly the position of former
stack or a former smoke bay) adjoining hall; C17 newel stair to front of stack;
chamfered beams to cross wing, with chamfered bressummer over open fireplace.
Tie beams show evidence for former attic floor; tie beam at lower end of hall
chamber shows evidence for queen posts.
Listing NGR: TM0772677165
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Location
Grid reference | TM 07726 77165 (point) |
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Map sheet | TM07NE |
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Record last edited
May 22 2008 12:06PM