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TL 9043
23/10006

GREAT WALDINGFIELD
FOLLY ROAD
No 25

II

House. C17, extended in C19 and C20. Plastered timber frame with applied sham framing. Thatched roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and rear lateral stacks (lateral stack truncated).

Plan: Original house has a three-room plan with a central hall heated from an axial stack, parlour to right with a rear lateral stack and small unheated room at left end; partition between hall and parlour removed. In circa late C19 a single storey wing was added to front of parlour and a small wing built at right end. In C20 addition built behind left end.

Exterior: one storey and attic. Asymmetrical south east front. Three small two-light casements to left with gabled and eyebrow dormers above; projecting gable-ended wing on right with similar windows, plank door on inner side and brick lateral stack on outer (north east) side. At rear tall ground floor windows, eyebrow dormer and C20 addition on right.

Interior: Hall has broad joists and large brick fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with cyma-notched stops; parlour has similar but smaller fireplace. Hall-parlour partition removed and beam supported on post made from chamfered beam with notched cyma stops. Exposed jowled storey posts, studs, sole-plates and wall plates. Clasped purlins above collars, common rafter couples, wind braces and timber-frame partition between hall and parlour chambers.

Listing NGR: TL9052643481

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284949

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability