Description

TQ 54 SE BIDBOROUGH UPPER HAYESDEN

4/32 Judd Farmhouse
24.6.87
II

Former farmhouse. Circa late C16 with a circa mid C17 phase of remodelling
and extension. Framed construction, the ground floor framing with brick
nogging, the sections of brick below the middle rail diagonally-laid on the
front (north) elevation, the first floor whitewashed and plastered. The first
floor of the main block is tile-hung at the left (east) gable end and in the
rear (south) elevation, which is clad or underbuilt in brick. Peg-tile roof;
brick stacks.

Plan and Development: The present arrangement is an overall L plan: a north-
facing single depth main range, 3 rooms wide, with a front right (north west)
wing at right angles. The late C16 house is the 2 eastern rooms of the main
block. This was a 2-cell storeyed house consisting of a narrow, unheated
service room to the left with a hall/kitchen to the right with a framed stack
at the left end of the hall/kitchen. The service room had a stair in the
front left corner. The original entrance may have been into a lobby facing
the framed stack, which did not extend the full width of the building. In the
circa mid/late C17 the house was remodelled and enlarged. The framed stack
was removed and replaced with a brick stack at the opposite end of the hall,
beyond the right end wall of the original house: this provided a parlour with
a heated chamber above. Beyond the stack, to the right, a kitchen was added
with a right end stack and a front right unheated service wing with a cellar
off the kitchen. The entrance into the main range may have been moved to a
lobby facing the parlour stack. The mid/late C17 plan is largely intact
although the entrance to the house has been moved to the rear, into the
kitchen and the kitchen stack and fireplace have been removed since 1958
(National Monuments Record photograph and information from the owner). A
stack, possibly C19, has been added to the service wing on the inner wall and
an outshut on the outer (west) wall of the service wing may also be C19.
There is a circa 1940s rear conservatory addition to the main range.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window north front plus 3 windows to the gable end of the wing. The framing, where exposed, is of large scantling. 3
ground and 3 first floor casement windows to the main range with circa early
C19 cast iron casements with diamond panes, one a C20 replacement. The gable
end of the wing, to the right, has similar windows: one on the ground floor is
C20, replacing an C18 door (National Monuments Record photograph). The
purlins project through the gable of the wing suggesting that it may have had
bargeboards. The corner post of the wing is rebated indicating that the
ground floor framing was not originally exposed between the wall plates.
Gable ended roofs; stack with brick shafts with corbelled coping.

Interior: Good survival of C16 and C17 features. The right hand room (the
kitchen) has plain exposed carpentry; the middle rail of the wing is chamfered
and stopped. The parlour fireplace has chamfered brick jambs, rather damaged,
and a chamfered lintel. A crossbeam marks the position of the former framed
stack with a mortise on the east side probably indicating the original width
of the stack. The circa mid C16 longitudinal ceiling beam has jewel step
stops and the joists are also chamfered and stopped. The service room at the
left end of the main range retains its original closely-spaced joists of large
scantling. The C17 chamber fireplace is intact with brick jambs and a
chamfered lintel.

Roof: The circa mid C16 clasped purlin roof construction survives with the
main timbers of the heavily soot-encrusted timber-framed stack. The extent of
the smoke-blackening shows that the stack was not the full width of the
building. The roof of the circa mid C17 wing is also of clasped purlin design
but of slighter scantling than the C16 roof. The attic room in the wing is
entered through a doorway in a closed partition with raking queen struts.

An interesting 2 phase traditional house with a well-preserved interior.

1958 photograph in National Monuments Record.

Listing NGR: TQ5606744359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541214

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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