TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD - Leigh Barton 1/110 29.12.66 II Farmhouse. Early C16, with C17 and later alterations. C20 restor-ation and addition. Timber framed. Painted brick infilling to ground floor and part of first floor, rendered infilling to rest. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays; two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays. 1½ storeys, on rendered flint and brick plinth. Left end bay jettied on solid-spandrel brackets, jetty returning along left gable end on moulded dragon post. Facade of rest of house flush with first floor of left end bay. Broadly-spaced studding, with virtually straight arch braces to ground floor of left end bay, and tension braces to first floor. Hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack to left end of right hall bay. Three three-light eaves dormers with hipped plain tile roofs, two to left and one to right of stack. Three leaded ground- floor casements. Ribbed door in painted brick porch with applied framing and gabled plain tile roof, under stack. Later (probably C20) two-storey parallel rear range to hall and right end bay, and similar single-storey addition to right of it. Interior: exposed framing. Axial joists to left end bay, morticed for central partition, and with stair trimmer along rear wall. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam with almost complete spear towards rear end and stump of another towards front end. Soffit morticed for post and stave partition with doorway towards each end. Chamfered hall window-cill extending length of front wall of left hall bay, and another to rear wall. Restored ceiling to right end room, but with slight evidence for right gable-end jetty. Gunstock-jowled posts. Cambered central- truss tie-beam. C20 roof. Chamfered axial beam and joists to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers. Listing NGR: TR1178645546