Listed Building: THE WURLIE (281755)

TL 96 NE BADWELL ASH THE STREET (NORTH SIDE) 4/10 Nos. 1,2 & 3 The Wurlie 15/11/54 (formely listed as The Wurlie, tile Street) GV II* House, now divided into 3. C15, C16 and C17. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiles. Complex form, in at least 4 separate builds: a central range, aligned north-south and at right-angles to the street, flanked by 2 cross- wings of differing dates. 2 storeys; attics to one cross-wing. No.1, on the street frontage, has 2-light and 3-light small-paned C20 standard windows and a recessed porch with ornate C20 plank door. To left of entry, 1½ bays formed a late medieval open hall: housings for 5-light diamond-mullioned hall windows in both side walls. The middle rails of the frame formed transomes to these windows and have long rebates for shutters. The main posts of the open truss have carved capitals and the remains of shafts; heavy arched braces, meeting in the centre, below a cambered tie-beam; plain square crown-post, braced 4 ways at the head. Little or no smoke-blackening on the roof-timbers. The gable end on the west has arched braces to the tie-beam, but no original studding, indicating that the building went further westwards. Fine inserted hall ceiling: double roll-moulding to cross-beams, single roll to joists. Adjoining the hall on the right, a 2-bay extension of the later C17: joists on edge; original upper ceilings; principal rafters; considerable replacement of timbers during restoration of 1960's. No.2, the central range, has 2-light C20 standard windows, but also one 4-light window with moulded mullions on the south side and 2 5-light older windows on the north, with diamond mullions on the upper floor, and on the ground floor with reinstated moulded mullions. 2 C20 plank doors, one ornate. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. 3-cell plan. The 2-bay ground-floor hall has a main beam with double roll-moulding and a single roll to joists; very large open fireplace with Tudor brick surround and plain cambered lintel. 2 service doorways in the partition wall with shallow, almost segmental, arched heads. Plain queen-post roof.' 'No.3 the north cross-wing, has small-paned standard casement windows throughout; one gabled dormer; a small lean-to porch addition; and an internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. Front section with good close-studding and remains of original windows with shutter-slides on the side walls, one probably an oriel. Main beam to ground floor ceiling with a cavetto mould between 2 roll mouldings; joists with a single roll. Upper fireplace with a depressed brick arch. It seems likely that a smoke-bay preceded the stack. This part of the wing, which is contemporary with the middle range, was probably built as a detached unit house; it is now joined to the rest of the building by a C17 link. Both halves of this wing had original upper ceilings; roof with clasped side purlins. Listing NGR: TL9907969175