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Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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race is thatinto which the northern end of the easternmost beamof the ground floor ceiling is fixed, this rises nearly,if not quite, as high as the wall plate, and is conse-quently presumably older than the beam.3 1 The western end of the roof being hipped from the eaves upwards there isno sixth truss. 2 My plan gives the state of this before the alteration. 3 I have seen a similar case in another mediaeval house hitherto, I believe,unnoticed by archaeologists, Backsett Town in Henfield. On the back of theGreat Hall wing there the timber construction is still visible outside, theopposite wall (where the present front door is) has been refaced, or replaced,by a brick wall of the XVII. or XVIII. century. In one place it can clearlybe seen how the beams of the ceiling of the ground floor are an addition to theoriginal design. I have not yet been able to make a thorough examinationof this house, but, from what I have seen, I should judge it to be approximatelyooeval with Houghton Place. 1
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HOUGHTON PLACE 207 Across the heads of the puncheons runs the tie-beam, an adze-hewn tree trunk more or less cambered4;in the second and third trusses the angles are bracedwith large curved braces, and from these diagonal spurbraces run to the heads of the puncheons. The fifthtruss is certainly not braced in this way; nor is thefourth at present, in the places where the bracesshould be there are doorways in the existing partition; framed up on this truss, but, owing to the existenceI of this partition, the truss below tie-beam level cannotbe examined. In the case of the first truss the masonrynow comes up to tie-beam level. j A king post rises from the centre of each tie beam,: flanked by two queen posts, the former supports twoI ridge pieces, one over the other, the latter carry purlinsI whose cross section is vertical, and not parallel to the face of the principal rafters. Both king and queen; posts are braced together longitudinally by arched braces whose design and construction ar

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