Description

TL 73 NE
4/72

GREAT YELDHAM
TOPPESFIELD ROAD
North Side
Scotneys Farmhouse

II

House, c.1500, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect NW, with late C16 chimney
stack in middle bay. C19 single-storey extension to NE, with central chimney
stack. C20 single-storey extension with hipped roof to SW. 2 storeys. Door in
tiled gabled porch, 6 casement windows on ground floor, 3 on first floor, of
which 2 are in gabled half-dormers, all C20. The interior has jowled posts,
edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, plain joists of horizontal
section jointed to chamfered axial beams with unrefined soffit tenons. The roof
is of crownpost construction and mainly as built, with nearly all the original
rafters and collars, most of the collar purlin, and one plain crownpost. Walls
entirely plastered.

Listing NGR: TL7541437523

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416114

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)