Description

WYVERSTONE MILL ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
TM 06 NW
4/129 The Plough
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GV II

House, latterly a public house. Mid to late C16, altered C20. Timber frame
on brick base, plastered. Steeply pitched machine pantiled roof. 5 bay 3
cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. 2 storeys and attic.
Lobby entrance into a C20 lean-to porch to right of centre, C20 2-light
casements; a clay lump, flint and brick C19 lean-to from service bay to left
with a truncated stack. Rendered axial ridge stack to right of centre between
hall and parlour. Right end brick lean-to addition, curved brackets to
oversailing attic with exposed purlins. Left end stable door, to rear doors
in original cross passage position and into parlour. Interior: traces of
original cross passage doorways, service end largely rebuilt, hall stop
chamfered cross axial binding beam, joists and storey posts, 4 and 7-light
roll and hollow mullioned windows with roll moulded sills and lintels; a reset
4-centred arched door head in lobby entrance position. Parlour has close
studding, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts, restored
3, 6 and 7-light diamond mullioned windows. First floor large arched and
cranked braces halved into walls from posts and mid-rails to studs stopping
short of wallplates which have edge halved scarf joints; cranked and arched
braces to cambered tie beams, many removed; diamond mullioned window openings
at service end with an inserted subsidiary roof, parlour chamber ceiled with
crossed stop chamfered binding beams. Purlins clasped by cambered collars,
cranked windbraces. Parlour roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM0328667344

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476882

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