Description

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA WIERTON HILL TQ 74 NE (East side)

2/67 Tanyard (formerly listed as Tanyard 23.5.67 Cottage)

II

House. C15 or early C16, with late C16 or early C17 additions and C19 alterations. Restored mid-to-late C20. Timber framed with rendered infilling. Ground floor of former open hall red brick, and of rear addition uncoursed stone. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal-length timber- framed bays, built at right-angles to road. Late C16 or early C17 range added to front gable end, parallel to road and extending to right; now of 2 timber-framed bays (that to right shorter), formerly with at least one more bay to right. Addition or re-building of one timber-framed bay to rear gable end of hall at similar date, with further bay at right-angles to its left side. Front range: 2 storeys and garret on stone plinth. Close- studded. Continuous jetty. Half-hipped roof. Eaves of left gable end jettied on solid-spandrel brackets. Multiple filleted brick stack to junction of main range and former open hall. Irregular fenestration of two slightly projecting mullioned and transomed oriel windows; one 14-light to left bay and one 8-light to right bay, both with roll-moulded cills, and that to left with moulded head and jambs. Boarded door in moulded 4-centred arched architrave with leaf spears to spandrels, to right end. Rear range: broadly-spaced studding with tension braces to both sections. Rear gable-end jetty, and hipped roof. Half-hipped roof and lower ridge to bay at right-angles. 7-light mullioned frieze window to right side of hall. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded rear end-of-hall beam. Front range has internally-visible tension braces and chamfered and moulded beams and joists. Stone fireplace to each floor of left room. Close-studded partition between rooms, that to ground floor with moulded 4-centred arched doorway and leaf spears to spandrels. Blocked doorway beside it leading from left room to stairs with onion finial along rear wall of right room. Clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters to both ranges, front range with windbraces.

Listing NGR: TQ7799649534

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