Description

ST. OSYTH SPRING LANE TM 1215 (east side) 15/183 The Old House and Little 29.4.52 Priory (formerly listed as Nol and 2 Priory Cottages) GV II* House, now 2 dwellings. Circa 1300 and late C15 with later alterations and additions. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roofs. 4 red brick chimney stacks. Gabled jettied crosswings to right and left with right outshot. Small first floor jettied gable with moulded soffit. 2 storeys and cellar. First floor 1:1:1:1 various windows, ground floor 1:0:1:2:2 various windows. 4 panelled 2 light door to left (The Old House), 2 panelled 2 light door to right. Interior. Late C15 left crosswing and central range of one build, heavy oak double braced frame. Jowled storey posts at ground floor level, straight over. Moulding to main tie beam now altered. Integral ceiling, joists have centre tenons with soffit shoulders, these are moulded in the crosswing. Peg holes indicate position of screen and wall bench. Circa 1530 brick remains of inserted chimney in crosswing. First floor appears to have been an open hall with central arched and braced tie beam, this now cut on east side. Crosswing probably originally with crown post roof structure, later altered. Circa 1300 right(south) crosswing. Heavy oak frame with jowled storey posts. Ground floor, contemporary doorway with carved double ogee head and contemporary oak panelling of wide vertical boards straight rabit jointed. Fine octagonal crown post roof with moulded base and capital. Down bracing to end gables. Simple splayed scarfs with over squinted abutments and face pegs to collar purlin and top plates. Cellar of great interest. The brick lining contemporary to timber structure over, possibly the second earliest example of a brick structure known in Essex, after Coggeshall Abbey. There is an arched niche in the brickwork, possibly a bee bole. A small area of knapped flint repair, similar to the Priory Gatehouse (Late C15) on north wall, apart from this the cellar is unaltered.

Listing NGR: TM1234315569

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)