Description

RATTLESDEN BRETTENHAM ROAD
TL 95 NE
3/82 Fen Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse, late C16, extended c.1600. One storey and attics, and two storeys.
The house was originally of 3-cell form; a parlour block was added to right
and the hall enlarged out of the earlier parlour block c.1600. Timber-framed
and roughcast. Thatched roof; one C19 casement dormer. An axial chimney of
c.1600 with very narrow pink and buff bricks. A complete set of mid C19
windows with small-paned cast iron casements. C19 gabled porch at cross-entry
position with half-glazed 4-panelled door. The earlier building has close-
studding and plain unchamfered floor joists exposed. The later work has
chamfered joists and beams with lambstongue stops. A blocked diamond-
mullioned window. The later roof has a pair of principal rafters with
collarbeam, and windbraced clasped purlins. A wide lintelled open fireplace
in the hall.

Listing NGR: TL9719755180

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476283

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)