Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW PADHAMS GREEN
723-1/6/465 Bibury
20/02/76
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
PADHAMS GREEN, Mountnessing
Eardisland)

GV II

House. Mainly mid-C16, part possibly of earlier origin,
extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, clad with roughcast
render, plaster, weatherboarding and red brick, roofed with
handmade and machine-made red clay tiles. 2-bay main range
facing W, the left bay forming an entrance-passage, and 2-bay
cross-wing to right, extending forwards. C18 internal stack at
the junction. C19 single-storey wing to rear centre with axial
stack, and lean-to extensions to each side, the left forming a
catslide with the roof of the main range. C20 conservatory to
right of cross-wing. All windows are C20 casements. Plain
boarded door in wide gabled porch. The cross-wing is jettied
to the front, with 2 brackets roughcast rendered; the roof has
a gablet hip to the rear.
INTERIOR: the main range has a floor of c1600 comprising a
chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of vertical section
with lamb's tongue stops, and a clasped purlin roof of similar
date incorporating some smoke-blackened rafters from a
medieval open hall. It is not clear whether this survives from
a medieval house, or was re-built in the C16. Walls of
ground-floor room matchboarded c1900. Hearths re-pointed with
lime mortar. The cross-wing has heavy close studding with
`Suffolk' braces, and jowled posts. Chamfered binding beam
with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section
jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches,
indicating a date of construction between 1510 and 1565,
probably nearer the later date. In the right girt are 3
diamond mortices of a former unglazed window, and a groove for
a sliding shutter, and above it is a similar window retaining
shortened diamond mullions. Similar window at the rear on the
first floor, blocked. The rear left corner post is rebated for
an original door opening into the cross-wing, indicating that
this was originally the parlour/solar wing of a medieval
house; a broken pintle hinge is still visible in the rebate.
Crownpost roof complete; chamfered collar-purlin with step
stops, and 3 axial braces. Smoke-blackened rafters from the
roof of a medieval open hall reused in the hip.

Listing NGR: TQ6438497468

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491798

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990