Blake House

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TQ5890 WARLEY ROAD, Great Warley 723-1/17/154 (North side) 21/10/58 Blake House (Formerly Listed as: WARLEY ROAD, Great Warley Blake Cottage)

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Formerly known as: Blake Cottage GREAT WARLEY STREET. House. Early C16, C18, C19, C20. Timber-framed, rendered and colour-washed, brick colour-washed, roofs peg-tiled. 2 rectangular blocks in line, to W. 2 storey and attics, mainly timber-framed and, to E, 2 storey, in brick, roof line drops accordingly. W block, brick on ground floor, 2 window range with central front door, flat hood on simple brackets, door with 2 flush lower panels and upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x3 panes. Ground floor, sash window, early C19 frame, sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, C20 bow window on brackets, 4x4 panes. First floor, two C20 casement windows of 3-lights, glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Roof half-hipped with early C19 stack at W end, 2 dormer windows, peg-tiled, C20 casement windows, 2-lights with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. E block, irregular windows - ground floor, 2 segment headed window apertures, one once a doorway, now with C20 top opening casement windows, also, C20 window, leaded panes, 4x3 panes. First floor, C20 2-light casement 4x3 panes. Roof, E end hipped with C19 stack in red brick. Rear, N elevation, lean-to addition to both blocks as continuous range, almost whole length, with `catslide' roof, irregular windows, ground floor, E-W, C20 boarded stable door set diagonally across NE corner. Two C20, 2-light casement windows. C20 boarded door with central light, glazing bars, 2x2 panes. C20 sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Inset at W end on house rear wall, C20 casement window with glazing bars, 2x3 panes, above, C20 top-opening casement window. Roof of E block has C20 flat roofed, weatherboarded, dormer, casement window of 3 lights. W block and lean-to have four C20 sky lights. E end elevation, stack with first floor C20 door adjacent and stairway up. 2 recessed lower panels, upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x3 panes, also C19, 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Ground floor, C20 casement with leaded panes, 4x3. Lean-to out-shut, weatherboarded with C20 bow window, 5x3 panes above small plain fixed window. INTERIOR: framing of early C16 timber-framed house survives with prominent cross-wall at high end of hall with 2 tiers of arched bracing and central peg in tie-beam for crown post, (now gone). Present doorway through partition on ground floor in original position, also peg holes, possibly for high end bench or later weavers' warping frame. Joint evidence also remains denoting site of central truss of the hall, and the associated hall top plate has simple elegant chamfer stops. Rear `hall' window shutter grooves and mullions survive. At hall low end, to W, an open truss has soot surviving from medieval times. This truss, probably a spere truss, with cross passage lying further W but now gone. Within the hall area a later floor inserted using reused timber from an earlier building. Bridging joist in low end (W) bay has early C17 lamb's tongue chamfer stops. The eastern, high end bay has been totally rebuilt and the ground floor exposed ceiling joists have housed pendant soffit joints, probably dating to the late C17. When the house W end was rebuilt to its present, 2-storey, form, the walls were raised with new plates propped at intervals from the original plates with slender studs. Blake House and other buildings around the green form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5831890683

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