Upstairs Room

(4.9m x 4.5m)  Open room with fireplace, chimney and exposed truss.  Wood ‘shack’ over stairs. Roof repairs

Retain all beams, roof structure and joists where possible.

Remove plaster to inspect/expose roof structure.

Retain chimney, but may fill in fireplace aperture.

 Dr Alcock suggested that the curious non-authentic truss assembly is possibly C18th repair to prevent the earlier structure from spreading.  He also detected possibility of soot in the roof indicating a hall house with open fire and without the upper floor.  More recently he has concluded that the upper front room (over new kitchen) may have been roofed over between two separate buildings.

See Timber Frames

Old stairs removed. This area becomes a landing with three further areas.

New stairs in area next to hay loft room.

Second upper Room (front)

(4.5m x 3.0m)  Recent roof repairs, bodged partition

Retain beam structure.

Restore (or remove) dangerously rotten floor at existing level.

Scrap ‘temporary’ partitioning.

Dr Alcock considered the front wall of this upper room to be original, i.e. the oldest part of the building.

The opposite side is hidden by the back wall of the Edwardian front room.

This room (over the new kitchen) is in the space between the two original buildings and reveals the upper part of the original rear frame of the front building, long demolished, on the site of the Mission Room

Hay Loft (rear)

(4.5m x 4.5m)  Was accessible only through hole and needed clearing. Recent roof repairs evident.  

Probably same continuous roof structure as upper room.

Hatch to outside over stable window to be replaced by glazing.  

New low access under original cross beam reveals original truss work of timber framed building.