Listed Building: The Last Straw (11/10003)

House. Circa C15, remodelled in circa early C17 and extended circa C18. Squared coursed limestone. Thatched roofs with gabled ends. Gabel end and axial stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: 3-room and through or cross passage plan, the lower end to right (NE) with a circa 1-room plan wing on the front of the high left end. At least the hall and high end and probably also the low end of the main range were open to the roof and heated from an open hearth fire in the hall. In circa early C17 an axial stack was inserted into the low end of the hall backing onto the cross-passage, probably when the hall and both ends were floored. C20 partition in hall forming axial passage at front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymetrical 4 window SE front. Small casements with leaded panes. Doorway on left with C20 lean-to porch in angle of projecting gable-ended wing; inner return of wing has circa C18 2 and 3-light casements with leaded panes, the first floor in small gable. Rear (NE) has 1, 3 and 4-light casements with leaded panes, with eyebrow eaves over first floor windows. INTERIOR: Hall has chamfered axial ceiling beam with cyma stops and large stone fireplace with similarly stop chamfered timber lintel. Rear room at low (RH) end has similar axial beam. Cross beam in parlour (left) is boxed in. Wing also has boxed in cross beam. Smoke blackened raised cruck truss against high side of hall stack, its apex tenoned into triangular block (yoke), truncated to take large square set ridgepiece. Chamfered moulding with ball stop on south blade of cruck, below missing collar. Large purlins set on backs of cruck blades and some smoke blackened common rafters. Roof over low (NE) end inaccessible.

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Sep 9 2021 1:52PM