Listed Building: LOWER FARMHOUSE (406133)

BARKING BARKING TYE TM 05 SE 2/17 Lower Farmhouse - II Farmhouse, C15 with alterations of late C16 and late C19. A 3-cell open-hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Concrete tiled roof with axial chimney of plastered red brick, and two mid C20 shafts. At ground storey are C19 large-pane sashes and at 1st storey C20 casements. C20 panelled entrance door at cross-passage position. The 2-bay open hall has a crown-post roof, smoke-encrusted. The open truss has almost been removed apart from its crownpost, the lower half of which is missing; crude octagonal capital and thick 4-way braces. Widely-spaced studwork at hall gables. One end cell has a coupled-rafter roof. A 1st floor was inserted late C16, the binding joist roll-moulded. Until c.1960 the roof was hipped and gabletted at both ends and the late C16 stack between the hall and parlour had square diagonally-set shafts. Listing NGR: TM0611952364