Description

TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD

4/155 Gatehouse To Plumpton House
including Well-House immediately east

II

Gatehouse to Plumpton House. Late C19 or Edwardian. 1 1/2 storeys. Mock-timbered and
roughcast-rendered above a high red brick plinth. Half-hipped plaintiled roof with
a large gable above the central entry. Wide, high entry with hammer beam roof,
mainly boxed-in with close-studded partitions so that only the supporting arched
braces and the hammer beams are visible. At collar-level a ceiling with exposed
joists. The central gable has projecting eaves and studding in the apex: a small
flat-headed dormer in each of its roof-slopes. A cottage on each side of the entry
with an internal red brick chimney-stack, which has a rectangular shaft and heavily
corbelled head; a gabled dormer with 3-light casement windows, plain projecting
barge-boards and studding in the apex; and, on the ground floor, a flat-headed
canted bay with a 4-light casement window. All the windows have square leaded panes
with tiny diamond panes linking the squares. An entrance door in the side wall.
2 small single-storey extensions, in similar materials but not identical in style,
have high end chimneys set internally with square shafts, a raised pilaster strip to
each face, and heavily corbelled heads. This building is one of very few examples
of mock-timbering in this part of Suffolk; it is also a landmark in the flat
surrounding country. Including contemporary well-house immediately east; square
plan open-sided timber-frame structure with posts at the corners supporting a
gableted hipped roof with louvres in the gablets. Between the corner posts wooden
railings with a gate on one side.
The gatehouse and wellhouse were probably built in circa 1911 when Plumpton House
was altered.

Listing NGR: TL8142858595

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524646

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