Description

TR 14 SE ELHAM

NORTH ELHAM
4/43 Parsonage
Farmhouse
29.12.66 (formerly listed
as Parsonage
Farm Cottages)

GV II*

Farmhouse. C13 or earlier, C16, and C17. Left section painted brick.
Left gable end red and grey brick in a mixed bond. Right section
rendered flint and chalk rubble with broad mortar joints, to undercroft,
painted mathematical tiles to first floor. First floor of right gable
end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. C13 or earlier undercroft, first
floor above it, comprising two timber-framed bays, rebuilt in C16.
Wider C17 addition to left, of two timber-framed bays and gable-end
stack bay. 2 storeys, left section taller. Plat band to left section,
continuous jetty to right section. Roof of left section gabled to
left and right, right section hipped to right. Multiflue brick stack
in front slope of roof to left end of left section. Irregular
fenestration of 3 windows; one tripartite sash towards centre of left
section and two two-light horizontally-sliding sashes to right section.
Ground floor has tripartite sash to left section and one four-pane sash
towards left end of right section. Panelled door with flat floating
hood to right end of left section. Boarded door with segmental head
to left gable end. Right gable end has stone jamb and head of blocked
plain-chamfered rectangular window with broach stop, towards centre
of undercroft wall. Red and grey brick lean-to to rear of each section,
that to left with small single-storey bakehouse (?) projecting back
at right-angles. Interior: undercroft has rendered chalk lump walls,
springing along front wall for barrel vault, and part of vault soffit
to right end. Blocked rectangular stone loop lights, splayed internally,
towards right end and centre of front wall of undercroft. Blocked
opening to right of centre of rear wall. C16 ceiling with cross and
axial beams replaces vault. First floor over undercroft has gunstock-
jowled principal posts and sans-purlin common-rafter roof with lapped
collars. Right section has chamfered axial beam to ground floor, and
aligned butt-purlin roof with collars; some of purlins re-used
moulded C16 lengths. Plank door with pin-and-ring hinges. C17 style
panelling beside first-floor fireplace. Said to have been owned by
Merton College Oxford c.1270-1957.

Listing NGR: TR1819644727

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546066

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