Cranmer Barton

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BROADHEMBURY ST 00 NE

4/32 Cranmer Barton

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Farmhouse. Early C17 or earlier, C18 refurbishment. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone footings; red tiled roof (formerly thatched), gabled at the left end, half- hipped at the right end; axial stack with a stone shaft, left end stack in handmade brick with a modern brick shaft, lateral stack to rear wing. Plan: T plan. A south facing main range, now 2 rooms wide with a cross passage to left of centre, but probably originally 3 rooms, the partition between the hall and inner room removed; lower end parlour. Hall stack backing on to passage, external winder stair in a projection on the rear wall. The rear right wing at right angles may be C17 in origin (mullioned window) but possibly converted to a kitchen wing in the C18 when the house was refurbished, and subsequently to a parlour and kitchen. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with a C20 plank front door to the passage with a Victorian gabled porch with a slate roof and a segmental arched outer doorway. Three 3-light ground floor casements with probably early C19 diamond-paned windows; 2- and 3-light first floor C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The inner return of the wing has 2 first floor mullioned windows: one with a section of C15 or early C16 timber traceried frieze, not in situ, nailed to the top. Interior: Plank and muntin screen on the lower side of the passage, the muntins chamfered on the passage side, the screen plastered over on the lower end side; early C18 2-panel door from passage into lower end room which has good probably late C17 plaster cornices to the ceiling and flanking the plastered-over crossbeam, simple fleur de lis motifs decorate the corners. The right hand room has a plastered-over axial beam that stops short at what was presumably the partition with the inner room; a 1950s fireplace conceals an earlier fireplace. The rear right room is a mid/late C19 parlour with a coeval chimney-piece. Plain carpentry detail to the kitchen beyond in the wing which has 2 bread ovens to the fireplace. A service stair rises from the kitchen. C18 2-panel doors on the first floor suggest that the axial first floor passage was inserted at this date. Roof: One side pegged jointed cruck survives, the rest of the house has been re- roofed in the C18 with X apex A frames, all below C20 roof timbers.

Listing NGR: ST0810205013

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