Building record 1141900000 - 6 POUND STREET

Grade II. Cottage, part of a row. C15 cruck building with No.8 (q.v.) altered C17 timber framed faced in early C19 flint and brick. Old tile roof, 2 brick chimneys at rear, 2 gabled eaves dormers at front. 1 1/2 storeys, 2 bays of 3-light wood casements with segmental arched heads; half- glazed door in centre, with small cornice hood, boarded door on LH leads to open passage where lower section of cruck truss is visible against party wall with No.8, and heavy original joists exposed in ceiling. Interior 3 cruck trusses, with large blades, elbowed in form, cut off above the collars. RCHM I p.307 MON.3. (B1).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in March 1989 suggest the building was constructed as a four-bay hall house probably in the early sixteenth century. Only the north-east bays (bays 1, 2 and part of 3) comprising no. 6 Pound Lane, were available for study. The original plan is not clear, but bay 2 is floored with lodged joists running axially, which are probably original. The house is likely to have had an open hall in bays 3 and 4 (now contained within no. 8), and perhaps a service
room in bay 1. All the crucks have truncated blades (type ‘W’ apexes). Probably during the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, the property was divided into two, and two chimney stacks inserted into no. 6. The timbers sampled could not be dated. Two samples, the rear cruck of T1, and the purlin above, matched to form a sequence of 71 rings. However, neither this nor the longer individual samples, could be matched against the master reference chronologies. See report for detail (B2).