Listed Building: WATERING FARMHOUSE (406595)

BARKING IPSWICH ROAD, NEEDHAM TM 05 SE MARKET 2/39 Watering Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Built in 2 stages: a small C16 house of 1 storey with attics, and a 2-cell parlour block of 2 storeys with attics added in early or mid C17 to right. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial chimney of red brick. A gabled C20 casement dormer. Mainly mid C20 small- pane casements; 3 C17 mullioned windows have been unblocked and glazed in the parlour. C20 gabled entrance porch with boarded door. The parlour block has good close-studding and the main beams are ovolo-moulded and channelled. Joists fully-exposed, some flat and some on-edge. The C16 range was probably a 3-cell house, becoming a service wing to left of the lobby - entrance from C17 onwards. The building was restored from dereliction c.1970 and has lost much original work particularly in the earlier wing. N.M.R. English Vernacular Houses Mercer, 1975. Listing NGR: TM0953054260