Deal Tree Farmhouse

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DODDINGHURST

TQ59NE BLACKMORE ROAD 723-1/5/313 (North side) Deal Tree Farmhouse

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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

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