Malyons (EHER 38162)

Mid 16th century timber-framed house.

House of the mid 16th century. It is timber-framed and plastered with timber frame exposed on the first floor and 20th century pargetting on ground floor. The roof is of peg tiles and hipped with gablets at each end. The house is of two storeys with long wall exposed jetty on front and an 18th century lean-to on north end linked to 20th century hipped roofed extensions. The front has an off-centre 20th century gabled porch with exposed framing and brick nogged gable. The exposed timber-framing includes cut back remnants of a number of moulded oriel windows and a complete moulded bressummer. The two bays at the south end are 20th century extensions and are treated similarly but with pentice roofed garage opening in the end bay. The windows are 20th century timber leaded light casements. It is a typical four bay long wall jetty house with richly moulded bridging joists, spine beams and common joists with swept stops. The rear wall stack has a mantel beam with similar mouldings. A central service wall door retains its arched head and a similar arched head in the front door position has sunk spandrels and moulded surround. The upper floor partitions seem to have been entirely without studs, probably as a boarded infill. The scarf joints are halved and bridled and floor joists have soffit tenons with diminished haunches (RCHM 29). <1> See: <2>