Building record 1059400000 - DEAN LEYS

Grade II. House. C16-C17. Timber frame with whitewashed brick infill. Old tile roof, external brick chimney at far end with rubble stone base. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor has paired barred wooden casements, that to left with segmental head. First floor has barred horizontal sliding sash windows. Central half-glazed door with segmental head and minimal board hood. C20 single storey extension to right is of whitewashed brick with some timbering, tiled roof, and garage doors to right. Interior of house has original floor joists, spine beams on chamfered and curved brackets and curved tension braces in central truss. Fragments of wall paintings with Elizabethan script on gable end wall of far ground floor room, and on central partition at first floor level, now mostly painted over (B1).
Wall painting recorded on an internal wall in upstairs bedroom over the main living-room. Composition in black and white with a black background, of opposed female half-figures holding elaborate cups or vases with sprays of roses, and surrounded by bunches of fruit and foliage and acanthus scrolls and with a narrow top border. Thought to be late 16th century, with parallels from Wilmington in Kent, Royston in Hertfordshire and Elmstead in Essesx (B2).