Description

TR 14 SE ELHAM
NORTH ELHAM

4/45 North Elham
Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17, with later facade and alterations. Timber
framed. Ground floor red brick, first floor tile-hung. Front gable
end of left cross-wing red brick in a Sussex-type bond to ground
floor, buff brick in Flemish bond above. Left return tile-hung,
probably over brick. Plain tile roof. East-facing main range of 2
timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. Later C17 or C18
single-bay rear return wing to right. Left (south)end rebuilt in early
C19 as cross-wing projecting to front (slightly) and rear, but
incorporating fragment of earlier timber-framing in right wall. 2
storeys. Left cross-wing has higher eaves and ridge, roof hipped to
front and rear. Main range hipped to right with gablet. Rear right
wing 1½ storeys, with half-hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack in front
slope of roof to left end of main range, and another to rear to right
to junction of rear wing and main range. Irregular fenestration of
3 windows; one recessed twelve-pane sash to front gable-end of left
cross-wing, one pair of four-pane sashes with central mullion towards
centre of main range, and one four-pane sash towards right end.
Boarded door to right of centre of main range. Lean-to with tile-
hung gable to right end. Lean-to to long left side of rear right wing,
descending almost to ground. Lean-to to right side of wing with partly
chalk-lump walls. Red and grey brick rear lean-to to left end of main
range, with half-glazed door under stack. Interior: exposed framing.
Chamfered cross beam to right of centre of principal ground-floor
room, and tenoned axial beam. Partition of thin studs and lacing-
pieces with three panels to storey, to right end of room. Right end
ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and joists, and door of
twelve moulded panels to right gable end. Gunstock-jowled posts.
Tie-beam with partition under it above cross beam of principal ground-
floor room. No truss over ground-floor partition. Exposed framing
to rear wall of main range. Inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer
to left end of principal ground floor room, and smaller brick fireplace
with angled back to first floor above. Brick inglenook with bressumer
to ground floor of rear right wing. Left cross-wing has reeded
window architrave with paterae, panelled shutters, similar doorway,
and stick balusters. Formerly known as Parsonage Farm.

Listing NGR: TR1820244717

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553193

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