Salmond's Farmhouse

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BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW SALMOND'S GROVE, Ingrave 723-1/9/218 (East side) 21/10/58 Salmond's Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS GROVE, Ingrave Salmond's Farmhouse)

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House. Early C15 and C16, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade and machine-made red clay tiles. H-plan, comprising a 2-bay main range facing approx W, with a C16 internal stack in the right bay in front of the axis; an early C15 2-bay cross-wing to left, with a C17/18 external stack to left of the front bay; and an early/mid-C16 2-bay cross-wing to right, with C17 external stack to right, and a late C19 external stack to rear. Small single-storey lean-tos behind main range and left cross-wing. Cross-wings of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. Ground floor, one C20 splayed bay of casements, and 2 early C19 sashes of 8+8 lights with C20 external shutters perforated with hearts. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 8+8 lights, and one C20 sash of 6+6 lights in large gabled dormer of main range. C18 door of 4 fielded and 2 glazed panels at right end of main range, in position of original door, with C20 lean-to porch. 2 grouped diagonal shafts on main stack, rebuilt in C19. The left cross-wing is jettied to the front, with 2 plain brackets; its roof has original gablet hips at front and back. The right cross-wing has a gable to the front, with a moulded tie-beam, and an original gablet hip to the rear. In the left elevation of the left cross-wing, on the ground floor, is an early C19 horizontal sash of 9+9 lights, and on the first floor an early C19 casement. Graffiti from 1899 on rear stack. The main range has a shorter service end bay to the right, in which the inserted stack leaves the original cross-entry unobstructed; C17/18 ledged and boarded rear door with original hinges. INTERIOR: large wood-burning hearth facing to left, with some C20 re-building at each side and rear; original mantel beam. Mid-C16 inserted floor, comprising a deeply chamfered axial beam, unstopped, and chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops, supported on pegged clamps; partly plastered to the soffits. In the front left corner of the ground-floor room is an early C19 attached corner cupboard with an arched head, 3 profiled shelves and a panelled door below. The roof of the main range is of clasped purlin construction, mostly unsooted, although incorporating some smoke-blackened rafters from a former crownpost roof; ceiled to the soffits of the collars. The left cross-wing was originally the parlour and solar, but became the service wing when a larger cross-wing was built at the right end of the main range in the early/mid-C16. Most of the joists in the front bay are original, of heavy wide section, jointed to the binding beam with unrefined central tenons; in the rear bay most joists have been replaced; all are plain. One of 2 arched braces to the binding beam. Stove in wood-burning hearth. Cambered central tie-beam with 2 arched braces, and C16/17 studded partition between the bays, on the first floor only. Simple collar-rafter roof, complete and original, boarded to the soffits of the rafters and collars c1900. The right cross-wing has an original close-studded partition between the bays on both storeys, with matched display braces trenched into the front of the studs in the lower storey. Two C20 grates. Crownpost roof, complete and original, with axial braces. Forelocks in the front tie-beam indicate an early repair or alteration. The house has several C18 ledged and boarded internal doors on original hinges. Pictorial evidence indicates that the rear stack was built c1885.

Listing NGR: TQ6243692142

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