Description

AYMESTREY CP UPPER LYE
SO 36 NE

1/22 Western Lye (formerly
listed as Upper Lye
11.6.59 Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. C15, remodelled late C17 and early C19, restored late C20.
Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on a coursed rubble
plinth; hipped tile roof to C17 part, rest with a slate roof. L-plan.
C15 range extending to south of three bays, central cruck trusses of open-
hall against stack in south bay; C17 range to west. C17 portion has two
lateral stacks of coursed rubble with brick dressings. East front: tall
C17 range to right of two storeys with a 2-light casement to each floor,
to left of two storeys with three 2-light casements. Entrance to right
of centre has a C20 gabled and tiled porch. Framing: six square panels
high to C17 part, three square panels high to C15. Interior: former
centre of open hall is a cruck truss with collar and V-struts above,
formerly with arch-braces below. The cruck truss between two northern bays
was formerly a closed truss (RCHM, 3, p 14, no 28).

Listing NGR: SO3920265665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588631

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings