Wardropers Farmhouse

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MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NE MOUNTNESSING ROAD 723-1/7/459 (East side) 20/02/76 Wardropers Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD MOUNTNESSING ROAD, Mountnessing Wardropers Farmhouse)

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House. Early/mid-C16 and earlier, renovated and extended in C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade and machine-made red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing N with continuous jetty at front, early/mid-C16, and stair-tower with lean-to roof to rear of middle bay. Rear stack to left of tower, and C20 external stack at right end. At the left end one bay remains of an earlier house, narrower in span and lower, with an external stack to left of it. Single-storey wing to rear of this part, single-storey lean-to extension to rear of left and middle bays of main range, and C20 2-storey wing to rear of right bay; C20 conservatory to rear of lean-to. 2 storeys and unlit attic. All windows are C20 casements. C20 door. The long jetty has 7 original plain brackets, an empty mortice for an eighth bracket, and a full-length moulded fascia. 4 of the jetty brackets are below main transverse timbers at bay intervals; the others are below short stub beams which support the jetty, but which do not extend into the house. The single bay at the left end has a gablet hip. INTERIOR: jowled posts, close studding, curved tension braces trenched outside the studs. The main range is originally divided into a one-bay room on each floor at the right end, and a 2-bay room at the left; on the first floor a partition has been inserted in the open truss. Original doorways with 4-centred doorheads at front and rear of right end of middle bay, and original plain doorway at rear to the first floor, on the same line, from the stair tower. Plain joists of horizontal section, all arranged longitudinally and jointed to the transverse beams with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. At the right end shutter grooves and diamond mortices indicate the former presence of unglazed windows towards the road on each floor. Similar evidence on the first floor above the original front door, with one diamond mullion. Arched braces to cambered tie-beam of formerly open truss, 0.10m wide. Wallplates and main posts chamfered with plain stops. Edge-halved and bridled scarf tin rear wallplate. C17 inserted floor above first-floor rooms; chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and exposed plain joists of vertical section in right bay, butt-edged hardwood boards. Crownpost roof complete. The cross-quadrate central crownpost of the open truss has 4-way rising braces of unusual profile, arched below, cranked above, similar to those of No.51 High Street, Ingatestone (qv); arched axial braces to the collar-purlin elsewhere. Original sprockets enclosed in C20 wing. The single bay of an earlier building may have been reconstructed on its present site, possibly part of the hall range formerly to S of the present main range, as there is no evidence of an original access to the main range at this end; a stud has been removed to make an access. The studding of the main range is unweathered within this bay, indicating that the single bay was present at an early date, possibly rebuilt as an ancillary with separate access from the outside. Plain horizontal joists lodged at both ends. 2 chamfered braces to severed tie-beam.

Listing NGR: TQ6586796778

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