Conyers Green Farmhouse

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TL 86 NE GREAT BARTON LIVERMERE ROAD

1/12 Conyers Green Farmhouse - 14.7.55 - II*

Former farmhouse. C15 and C16. Part one-and-a-half storeys, part 2 storeys and attics; L-shaped form with a crosswing on the south west which is jettied at first floor and tie-beam levels. Timber-framed, with partly rendered, partly roughcast, exterior and plaintiled roofs. 3 chimney-stacks: to the cross-wing with 2 octagonal shafts with moulded bases and corbelled caps, to the main range with 2 square shafts linked in saw-tooth fashion, and at the north end, of complex saw-tooth form. The front has applied Edwardian mock- timbering: widely-spaced uprights to the main range, panels to the cross-wing. The 2 jetties of the cross-wing are supported by heavy console brackets; the gable has fluted bargeboards and a spike finial. A mullion-and-transon type window to the ground storey and a 3-light casement window above. Small-paned casement windows to main range with flat hoodmoulds in Tudor style; 2 gabled dormers with cast-iron casement windows, fluted bargeboards, and terracotta spike finials. Entrance door, in the angle of the 2 ranges, with applied Gothick pilaster-strips. The interior has very good framing. The main range contains the remains of a 2-bay open hall with crown-post roof: open truss with large heavy arched braces, one removed, to the cambered tie-beam; crown post with moulded cap and base; raised pilasters down the faces of the main posts have been hacked away. Main cross-beams only of the inserted ceiling visible. The inserted stack backs on to the cross-entry, and has a single hearth with open fireplace containing some reused stone blocks. Beyond the hall on the north-east side is a C16 extension with an upper floor and end chimney-stack: some further additions and alterations here, but probably added as a heated kitchen at the same time as the wide 5-bay cross-wing at the other end of the hall replaced the original medieval service area. The cross-wing has two 2-bay rooms separated by an internal chimney-stack: one reconstructed hearth includes some reused stone blocks. Ceiling-beams with 4" chamfer and curved stops; joists exposed in one room; close-studding, and 2 original windows, set high, with ogee-moulded mullions: one on the north west wall of 5 lights, the other on the south west of 7 lights. A blocked doorway with rectangular head to the frame on each side of the fireplace.

Listing NGR: TL8862767545

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