Description

TL 61 SW AYTHORPE RODING

6/4 FRIARS GRANGE FARMHOUSE
7.2.52

GV II*

Hall house, circa 1400, altered in C16, C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered,
roof tiled. Built as a grange of Tilty Abbey (Cistercian), with a 2-bay hall,
integral service end at the W, and integral parlour/solar at the E, probably
both with lean-to roofs. In the mid-C16 a timber-framed smoke hood was
constructed at the W end of the hall, with a floor in the remainder.
Later in the C16 the smoke hood was replaced by a brick chimney stack, backing
onto the cross-entry and later a second chimney stack was built back to back
with it, blocking the cross-entry and forming a lobby-entrance. In the
late C16 the original parlour/solar end was demolished and replaced by a
2-bay crosswing with an external chimney stack at the E side. A pseudo-
crosswing was built at the W end, enclosing the original service end and
extending to E of it. A dairy, single-storey with attics, was added to the
rear of this pseudo-crosswing, forming an L-plan. A dormer was inserted
in the N pitch of the hall roof. All these alterations were completed by
or soon after 1600. At some time unknown a major repair has been undertaken
to the rear wall of the hall, rebuilding it 35 cm inside its original position;
the projecting ends of the tiebeams were cut off. In the C19 the front entrance
was moved to its present position at the NE corner of the hall. C20, minor
alterations, non structural, N elevation, ground floor, 5 C20 casement
windows and 4-panel door with shallow bracketed hood; first floor, 4 C20
casement windows, including one in a gabled dormer. Pargeted design of a
wheatsheaf on each gable. Jowled storey posts. Clasped purlin roofs on
both crosswings and S extension, crownpost roof on hall, heavily smoke-
blackened and virtually complete. Steeply cranked central tiebeam, cross-
quadrate crownpost with 4 braces, complete; collars halved to rafters and
secured with nailhead pegs. Blocked smoke-vent at W gable of hall.
Unglazed windows with diamond mullions present in W wall of service room
(now enclosed in pseudo-crosswing) and first floor rear wall of hall.
Moulded mantel beam in middle ground floor room, originally a bowtell in
great casement repeated, but mutilated. Early C17 oak panelling in same
room. 4 late C17 leaded windows with wrought iron casements and some C17
glass in rear wall, and another in an internal wall on the first floor.
Original stairs to both attics in crosswings, with original floorboards.
Exposed framing in S extension. Records in 1444-6, W. C. Waller, Trans. Essex
Arch. Soc. VIII (1903) pp. 349, 358, 360, and transcription of Tilty Abbey
Cartulary by W. C. Waller in Essex Record Office. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL6038414324

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535012

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)