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DODDINGHURST
TQ59NE BLACKMORE ROAD
723-1/5/313 (North side)
Deal Tree Farmhouse
II
House. C15, C17/18, C20. Timber-framed and rendered with C20
pargeting, also cement block, rendered, roof peg-tiled at
front but flat C20 tiles at rear. U-plan: principal
rectangular block with 2 later rear wings at W and E.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey although false attic mullioned window at
rear. S front elevation. All the windows are C20 and the
casements have small rectangular leaded panes. Ground floor,
W-E, bay window, 5 casement lights and single side light on
brick base with peg-tiled roof, casement window, 2 lights, C20
porch, timber and brick, gabled roof, peg tiles, 3 front and 5
side lights on each side and C20 boarded door, casement
window, 3 lights, one casement window. First floor, W-E, two
3-light casement windows, a glazed aperture with 2 false
mullions behind, one 3-light and one 2-light window. Rear N
elevation, W cross-wing, ground floor, French window, leaded
panes, gable above has glazed aperture with false mullions
behind. Central block, ground floor, two 2-light casements, 3
small fixed lights. First floor, 2 single casements and a
central glazed aperture with 5 false mullions behind. E end,
small cross-wing - casement window with 3 lights - porch to E
with 2-light casement. E gable end, ground floor, 2 single
casements, glazing bars, 3x3 panes with a slit window of 7
panes between them. C20 porch at N end, rendered with a gable
roof and side lights - 7 panes long at front and 2 lights at
rear. First floor, 2-light casement. W end ground floor, two
2-light casements with glazing bars, one 6x3 panes and one
6x4. First floor, one 2-light casement, glazing bars, 6x3
panes and a 7 paned slit window in gable.
INTERIOR: although heavily restored and reworked, the interior
reveals the elements of a medieval hall house, a 2-bayed hall
and storeyed ends. Some sooting of the hall timbers still
extant in joint recesses. The hall central truss is
considerably off centre towards the 'low' end and has the
appearance of a spere truss from the cross entry. Cambered
central tie-beam, with pegs for crown-post and lower fillet to
link rising braces. Main posts unjowled. Cross entry doors,
front segment headed, rear straight head. Hall high end (E)
rear wall has mullion holes and a rebate on site of window,
front wall evidence all gone. Edge halved and bridled scarf
joints in wall plate over back and front hall windows. High
end storeyed bay - gable end frame with tie-beam interrupted
by framing to take a 2-light medieval window at one and a half
storey height. Each light had 2 mullions and 2 shutter grooves
run from the centre outwards. Tension bracing in this gable,
beneath window. Low end storeyed bay all but gone but arched
bracing remains in N side wall on ground and first floors.
Back to back fireplaces inserted into cross passage in C17
(service doors removed) to create a lobby entrance system.
Fireplace lintel decorated with Tudor flattened arch and
stylised leaf in spandrels. Inserted floors contemporary, with
reduced soffit tenons and diminished haunches. Side walls have
clamps for joists. Although the house walls have been raised
in C20 and false mullion windows inserted the house is of a
type found in E Anglia, where the storeyed bays are in line
with the hall and the interrrupted tie-beam system is needed
at the gable ends to accommodate 2 floors in one and a half
storeys. The low end of the house was no doubt similarly
framed. See Sabines Farm, Sabines Green, Navestock (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ5848399542
