Listed Building: THE POPLARS (280646)

SHELLAND LOWER ROAD TM 05 NW 6/163 The Poplars -- II House, c.1570. 3-cell plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with gabled plaintiled dormers with small-pane casements. An axial C16 chimney of narrow buff/pink brick, the shaft rebuilt in C18 red brick. An external gable chimney of C17 to left. Two good late C18 or early C19 cross-casements with Gothick cast-iron traceried lights above the transomes. A C19/C20 corner porch with lean-to slated roof and panelled door. An early C20 pantiled lean-to extension to front right. Quite complete unmoulded C16 framing: chamfered floor joists and a lintelled open fireplace in the hall. Arch windbraced studding, and a number of diamond-mullioned windows. The upper floors in parlour and service cells were renewed in C17/C18; in the service cell is a large reused moulded bridging beam with C15 casement mouldings. Side-purlin roof. Listing NGR: TM0013559480