Description

STOWUPLAND THORNEY GREEN
TM 05 NE

7/196 Pooles Farmhouse
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-- II

Farmhouse, late C16. 3-cell plan with lobby entrance. One storey and attics.
Timber-framed and pebble dashed. Plaintiled roof, with one C19 gabled
casement dormer. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 red brick. 3-
light C19 casements. Late C19 gabled entrance porch with ogee-curved
bargeboards; 4-panelled door. The house has been altered in late C16/early
C17, and the original layout is unclear although probably of 2-cell form. The
central chimney bay is flanked by two pairs of inserted base-crucks supporting
heavy collar beams; earlier tie-beams have been removed from chambers over
hall and parlour. Evidence for shuttered unglazed windows in service rooms to
left. The central hall has good late C16/early C17 chamfered floor joists.
The parlour cell has a bridging beam with C17 lambstongue chamfer stops
suggeesting an extension here. Good wind-braced clasped purlin roof of late
C16. A short service wing of C17/C18 to rear left. Partial medieval moat.

Listing NGR: TM0622059905

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477405

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings