Description

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TM 27 SW
8/107

STRADBROKE
NEW STREET (off)
Doggetts

II

Former farmhouse. A very complex house, with work mainly of C14-C16, together
with later alterations. It comprises a long main range and, to the left, a
smaller rear wing set corner-to-corner to it and linked by a later rear
addition. Timber framed and plastered; the right gable end and left gable are
weatherboarded. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys with attic to main range. Windows
mainly small-paned 2-light casements of C19 date; one older mullioned window
to first floor. 2 plank doors. Above the left doorway at first floor level
is an oblong plaster panel bearing the date 1711 within a lunette with an
enriched border. Heavy internal stack to right, the lower portion of the
shaft original. In a corresponding position to the left is a C19 stack with
small square shaft. Rear wing is cement-rendered with a shallow-pitched roof;
standard casement windows and gable stack The C14 section comprises 2 bays
towards the left end of the main range, where there is a simple splayed scarf
joint in the wallplate. This section was raised over one metre in late
C16/early C17. The adjoining end bay is a C16 or early C17 addition. The
remainder of the range comprises hall and parlour cells. Most of the
structure in the hall cell is concealed; the hall bridging beam seems to be a
later insertion and may indicate that this part of the house also has a
medieval core. The hall has a fine C15-C16 plank and muntin cross partition.
Hall chimneybreast retains early spit rack. Hall chamber fireplace has late
C16 panelled plaster surround with raised borders. Beyond the stack is a late
C16 2-bay parlour addition. On the upper floor there is heavy studding, quite
widely-spaced, and reverse-curved braces. Evidence for 2 diamond-mullioned
side windows; a short distance below each of these is the lintol of a matching
window, set just above floor level, presumably an error of construction. The
parlour fireplace has remains of a Classical design painted on plaster and in
the chamber above is an arched brick fireplace. This chamber has an arch-
braced cambered tie beam carrying queen-posts; the original bracing to the
arcade plates has goner Remainder of roof of clasped-purlin form, a later
reconstruction using C16 rafters. Rear wing, perhaps of C15 date, has
widely-spaced studding with later studs between; stack inserted c1600 and
walls raised about one metre c1800; it was probably built as an attached kitchen or service wing.
"Doggetts" has been little altered since C17 and there are some C17
plank doors, old plaster and brick floors.

Listing NGR: TM2257774072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284300

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)