page_title: Weald and Downland Living Museum
section_title: Pendean farmhouse
hierarchical_section_title: Weald and Downland Living Museum / Buildings / Pendean farmhouse
caption_attribution_description: English: Pendean, a timber-framed early Jacobean farmhouse with brick nogging to the ground floor. It was built at West Lavington, near Midhurst, Sussex. According to dendrochronological evidence the timbers used to build the house were felled in 1609. The house was dismantled in 1975 and re-erected at the Weald and Downland Museum at Singleton.
context_page_description: The Weald and Downland Living Museum is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex. The museum is a registered charity.
  The museum covers 40 acres, with over 50 historic buildings dating from 950AD to the 19th century, along with gardens, farm animals, walks and a mill pond.
  The principal aim at the foundation of the museum was to establish a centre that could rescue representative examples of vernacular buildings from South East England, and thereby to generate increased public awareness and interest in the built environment.
  The museum principally promotes the retention of buildings on their original sites unless there is no alternative, and encourages an informed and sympathetic approach to their preservation and continuing use.
  The buildings at the museum were all threatened with destruction and, as it was not possible to find a way to preserve them at their original sites, they were carefully dismantled, conserved and rebuilt in their historical form at the museum.
  These buildings, plus two archaeological reconstructions, help the museum bring to life the homes, farmsteads and rural industries of the last 950 years.
context_section_description: This hall house was originally built at West Lavington, West Sussex, in 1609. Instead of an open hall there is a central chimney with fireplaces on both ground and first floors. It retains some features from 16th-century practice, such as unglazed windows. The building has a timber frame, with brick infill to the ground floor and wattle and daub infill to the first floor. It was re-erected at the museum in 1975, but the discovery of a postcard of the building at its original site showed that the chimney had not been reconstructed correctly. The chimney was rebuilt in January 2001 to a more accurate profile. The house is furnished in period style.
caption: Pendean farmhouse
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