Description

WICKHAM SKEITH
TM 06 NE
2/144 Great Oak Farmhouse
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-- II
Farmhouse. Late C14/early C15 with C16 in-line parlour addition to left.
Timber framed, part plastered, the front cased in whitewashed brick. Thatched
roof. 3 cells, the earlier work comprising a former open hall and associated
service end. 1½ storeys. Various casement windows. Ground floor has 3 3-
light mullion and transom windows without glazing bars, under segmental
arches. 3 eyebrow dormers, one with an C18 3-light square-leaded window.
Lobby entry has disused door with 6 raised fielded panels. Stack has rebuilt
shaft. One-storey colourwashed brick lean-to on right gable end. Interior.
Truss over former open hall has front half of massive cambered tie beam with
intact brace. It carries an octagonal crown-post: base mutilated, capital
with a single roll moulding above which there is thick 4-way bracing. Intact
coupled rafters, heavily sooted. Lower end wall of hall has widely-spaced
studding with down braces from a central stud to the tie beam. Remainder of
medieval frame mostly concealed. Service partition removed; the cross-beam
which carried it is hollow-moulded. Inserted floor in hall has ovolo-moulded
main beam, the joists concealed. Stack inserted in upper end of hall,
probably when parlour cell was added. Timbers in parlour cell largely
concealed; there is a central cambered tie beam with missing braces. Roof
over this section not examined.

Listing NGR: TM0931968397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477865

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