Description

CODDENHAM SPRING LANE
TM 15 NW
5/44 Little Choppins Farmhouse
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- II

House, late C15. Timber-framed and roughcast. Thatched roof half-hipped at
both ends. An axial chimney of painted red brick, and a gable chimney to
right. A 3-cell open-hall house; 2 storeys. Mainly C20 small-pane casements;
some original windows are exposed and glazed. C20 hipped plaintiled entrance
porch, glazed, with battened and boarded door. The structure is unusually
complete and fully exposed. The 2-bay open hall has all four doorways in the
cross-entry, with hollow-chamfered 4-centred arches. The hall open truss is
concealed, but part of the chamfered arch-braces are visible, with evidence
for pilaster-shafts below. 6-light hall windows with transomes, some of the
square mullions retained and glazed. At the dais end is good tension-braced
close-studding. Complete smoke-encrusted coupled-rafter roof. The end cells
have diamond-mullioned windows, and arch-braced studwork at the corners.
Unchamfered heavy lodged floor joists; the service rooms were formerly divided
by a wattle-and-daub partition. Evidence for speres at cross-entry and at the
parlour doorway. An inserted upper floor with chamfered joists in the hall,
with a large altered open fireplace backing onto the cross-entry, both of
c.1600. A rear mid C20 2-storey extension.

Listing NGR: TM1390455846

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477362

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)