Wyatts

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BLACKMORE

TQ69NW WYATT'S GREEN ROAD 723-1/6/55 (North East side) Wyatts

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Wyatts Farm. House. Early C17, incorporating a medieval rear range, altered in early C19 and c1900. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing SE, with axial stack in second bay from left end, originally forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked. External stack at right end. Service range of 3 bays to rear of right bay, with C18 stack in right wall C18/early C19 wing of painted red brick in Flemish bond to rear of left bay, and single-storey extension beyond, square with pyramidal roof and lantern. Single-storey extension to left of main range, 1964. 2 storeys, cellar and attics. A single-storey ancillary range abuts at the rear right corner of the service range, not of special architectural or historic interest. The exterior has been extensively re-styled c1900, with 2 gabled full-height square bays of casements, 2 similar casements on each floor, and one more in a central gabled dormer. C20 door at front of gabled porch, c1900. Symmetrical elevation. The right elevation of the rear right wing has similar windows, and a full-length canopy with a slate lean-to roof on wooden stanchions with quatrefoiled brackets; the feet of the stanchions have been replaced by C20 plinths. Early C19 6-panel door to entrance hall in front bay. INTERIOR: the left bay has at each storey an unusual floor structure comprising 2 longitudinal beams, 2 bridging beams between them, and one bridging beam to each side, all chamfered with lamb's tongue stops; plain joists of vertical section, exposed above the first-floor only. The bay to right of the main stack has an axial beam, originally chamfered, but of which about 0.05m of the soffit has been hacked off; above the first-floor room the equivalent beam is charred and repaired, with plain joists of vertical section. The right bay has chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops at each storey, and plain joists of vertical section exposed above the first-floor room only. 2 large wood-burning hearths on the ground floor, rebuilt or re-faced with C20 bricks, retaining the original mantel beam of the right hearth only, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. C20 grate in right ground-floor room. Original butt-purlin roof of high quality, the purlins chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, indicating that the attics were intended as living accommodation from the outset. In the service range the rear bay has an axial beam, the soffit hacked, and plain joists of vertical section. Wood-burning hearth, tiled for stove. The front bay has been re-styled as an entrance hall in the early C19, with semi-elliptical arches, 6-panel doors and reeded doorcases of high quality at both storeys; there are similar internal doors elsewhere. This range was originally of one storey with attics, raised approx 1.50m in the C17 with heavy primary straight bracing and hardwood studding, and a butt-purlin roof similar to that of the main range. Most of the arched collars have been severed. The lower part of this range survives from a medieval house, but at the time of inspection, February 1989, the only part of the frame which was visible was the right wallplate at the rear corner. A pivoted bell on brackets is attached to the gable wall. The left rear wing forms an open-well stair to the attic, the stair itself late C19 or c1900, with a C20 stained glass window and an C18/early C19 roof of high quality; 2 straight tie-beams, shouldered king posts and raking struts, and one bridging beam between the tie-beams, all of hardwood, fully jointed and pegged and chamfered with plain stops. A tablet in the rear wall inscribed AEW 1902 may indicate the owner and date at the time of the external re-styling, and possibly the stair, but cannot refer to the construction of this wing, which is of handmade bricks with a much earlier roof.

Listing NGR: TQ6011499162

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