Houghtons

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TQ59NW HORSEMAN SIDE 723-1/4/491 (North side) 20/02/76 Houghtons (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD HORSEMAN SIDE, Navestock Honeysuckle Cottage)

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House. Mid-C16, c1600 and C20. Exposed timber-frame with stout studding, peg-tiled roofs with rear dormer. Late medieval hall house of U-plan, solar to W and service to E (no front projection of cross-wings). EXTERIOR: 2 storeyed 4 window range, all C20 wooden casements with lattice leaded lights. C20 porch off centre to W gabled, brick with glazed upper section of lattice leaded lights and boarded door. 2 areas of C20 herring-bone brickwork on ground floor at both ends of hall. Timber-framing of front shows site of original hall window, original hall top plate and raising of the hall wall with primary braced framing sitting upon the earlier work. Framing of cross-wing same as hall but considerably rebuilt in the upper parts. Cross-wing roofs show side purlins projecting. Chimney-stack to E of centre of hall in front of apex, red brick, some burnt, C17. INTERIOR: evidence most complete on ground floor as rebuilding of upper floor and roof in C17 and C20 has removed much original detail. Ground floor cross wall at high end of hall has 2 original doorways to solar with depressed 4 centred arched heads and central post with single stud brace nailed to verticals. Hall has inserted floor/ceiling with common joists laid flat with step stops to chamfers and diminished haunched soffit tenons to bridging joist. Supporting clamps pegged to outer walls have grooves on under surfaces. Rising brace from the rear principal post of the hall central truss survives in part. Inserted stack c1600 virtually fills the low end of the hall and no cross entry evidence survives. At first floor, hall tie-beam removed when roof raised in late C16 (present tie-beam at upper level probably the original simply lifted). Roof evidence slight but a number of reused joists with skew joints probably from original roof - of collar rafter type - supported by crown posts and collar purlin. In roof 2 reused window mullions with rolls and hollow chamfers possibly from original hall windows. Solar cross-wing rear bay at ground floor has flat laid ceiling joists with diminished haunches and step stopped chamfers. Stair trap leading from original hall doorway with stair in part original with triangular section block treads nailed to strings. Service cross-wing much rebuilt from reused material. Wall frame though still contains on first floor a late medieval window with cyma and hollow mouldings also original. On exterior, one normal stud brace and one with reverse curve (up-swinging). Stack serving this cross-wing apparently added in C18/C19 onto C17 one inserted into hall. C19 fireplace on first floor. Rear of house has cross-wings projecting and C20 lean to addition to W Original house framing partly preserved with remains of stud bracing and evidence of raising of roof of hall with primary bracing. Windows as at front. Rear door in hall also glazed with lattice leaded lights and simple hood over. Second door to W boarded stable type with hood. Dating phases :- (1) Stud bracing, window in service cross-wing and hall doors, c1550. (2) Inserted hall floor, raising of hall walls and major stack c1600 with perhaps new floors of rear of solar cross-wing. (3) C18/C19 stack added to service cross-wing and roof reworked over hall. (4) C20 porch, much refurbishment and incorporation of new wood and timber from old buildings and repositioning members in house, new windows.

Listing NGR: TQ5418496002

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