Description

LAMARSH
TL 83 NE
2/57 Edgar's Farmhouse
- II
House. Circa 1500, extended c.1600 and in C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast
rendered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing SW with late C16 axial chimney stack
in left bay, and storeyed service bay beyond. One-bay extension to right,
c.1600, with end chimney stack. C20 extension at left end, and lean-to
extension to rear of this end, with slate roof. One storey with attics. Plain
boarded door at front of tiled gabled porch, C20, 3 C20 casement windows, and 2
more in eyebrow dormers. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, the
original floor of lodged plain joists in the service bay, and an inserted floor
of the late C16 in the hall, with transverse and axial beams chamfered with
lamb's tongue stops. The upper part of the rear hall window survives, with 3 3
diamond mullions, now inside the rear extension. Main hearth lined with modern
brick. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in rear wallplate. Collar-rafter roof,
heavily sooted, with double collar for smoke vent over service end. Some
evidence of a smoke bay before the brick chimney was built in late C16.

Listing NGR: TL8947835422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26415962

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)