Worlds End Farmhouse (EHER 9360)

Late 16th century timber-framed house.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Worlds End Farm (NAT). <1> Shown on Chapman and Andre map, 1777, as 'Worlds End Farm'. <2> <3> House built in the 16th century, timber-framed and plastered with tiled roofs; has gabled staircase wing on the north-east side. Upper storey projects on whole of south-west front. Original front door. Some windows have original discoid-shaped mullions. Inside some original moulded ceiling beams and panelled doors. <4> Late 16th century house, 19th and 20th century additions. RCHM 4. Grade II*. Site Assessment = Exceptional number of features of about 1570 with less subsequent alteration than is usually found. <5> August 1976. Field visit. World's End Farm (name confirmed) is a typical 16th century timber-framed house with jettied first floor, but it has been modernised and is not outstanding. See photograph. Published 1:2500 survey 1955 revised. <6> 2003. Field survey. The house is of late 16th century date and is a single long walled jettied build, to a medieval plan. Originally there was a two-storey porch to the front and the framed door to the first floor room over the porch can be seen. The original stack has been rebuilt and the garderobe removed. The stair tower to the rear survives, containing an open well stair with 4 newel posts. Typical of a 3 celled medieval plan. Two doors give access to the service range off the cross passage. The service has plain flat section joists, while the hall and parlour have moulded joists. Diamond mullion windows at service end with oriel windows with frieze lights in the hall and parlour end. Access to the stair tower is from the hall. The roof consists of principal rafters, diminished above the clasped purlins but jowled at apexes. Queen struts support the collars and wind braces mortised to rafters. The attic is accessed through the stair tower. <7>