Survey Data
Reg No
20902217
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
127726, 103023
Date Recorded
29/08/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Eastern house of semi-detached pair of three-bay single-storey vernacular houses, built c. 1860, originally a single detached house. Flat-roofed extensions to rear. Hipped thatched roof having rendered chimneystack shared with neighbour to west. Painted rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed window openings having render surrounds, painted limestone sills and one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorwaywith recessed replacement glazed timber door. Painted rendered boundary walls terminating in square-profile piers having replacement metal gates.
Appraisal
This house forms part of an unsual semi-detached arrangement of thatched houses, half of an original long single-storey vernacular house. This may be the result of the influence of urban and estate architecture on rural vernacular dwellings. The building retains its thatched roof.