Description

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

1/114 Little Upper Hill
Street Cottage

II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber
framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor weatherboarded (formerly
tile-hung). Plain tile roof. Lobby-entry plan of 3 timber-framed
bays. Fourth bay added to right in C17 or C18. Two storeys, on rendered
plinth. Hipped roof. Brick stack towards right end of left end bay,
and another to left end of added right bay. Irregular fenestration
of 4 two-light casements. Ribbed door under left stack, half-glazed
door under right stack. Interior: central and right bays form one
room, with chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists. Mortices for
four-light diamond-mullion window with shutter groove to right end
of room. Tension braces to each floor of former right gable end.
Added right bay has chamfered cross beam to right of stack, and axial
joists. Left fireplace has wooden bressumer tenoned to rear wall-
post and to a post towards front of house, infilled with apparently
later brick jambs, and possibly part of a timber stack. Arch-braced
tie-beam with unmorticed soffit immediately to right of stack has
a stud and daub partition above it angled to right, away from stack.
Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to right stack.

Listing NGR: TR1165545419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534695

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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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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5