Description

BACTON EARLS GREEN
TM 06 NW

1/14 Menes Farmhouse

- II

Former farmhouse, C15 or early C16 core with alterations of mid C16. 3-cell plan.
One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with axial
chimney of red brick. Mid C20 casement with small panes; two flat-roofed bay
windows. C20 thatched gabled porch at lobby entrance position with boarded and
battened door. A fragmentary open hall of 2 bays at the centre of the building:
smoke-blackened coupled rafter roof with evidence for a hip to left; the house must
have been of 2-cell form. An altered original diamond-mullioned hall window. The
open truss is missing apart from posts with arch brace mortices. A cell was added
to left in mid C16: arch windbraced close studding and heavy lodged unchamfered
floor joists. A cell was added to right later in C16 in place of the original
service cell. Diamond-mullioned windows also at this stage. Floor joists slightly
less massive, also an upper floor was inserted in the hall.

Listing NGR: TM0409366643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284142

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (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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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide