Survey Data
Reg No
32402020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
163191, 328503
Date Recorded
02/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Gable-fronted projecting entrance porch to centre of south (front) elevation, lean-to extension to north (rear). Pitched straw-thatched roof, diamond-pattern scalloping to ridges, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, painted concrete skews. Painted roughcast walling to south, smooth-rendered to east gable. Square-headed window openings, flat smooth-rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, flat smooth-rendered surround, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Set back slightly from, and below level of, busy main road, painted roughcast boundary wall to roadside, wrought-iron gate.
Appraisal
This attractive thatched house is a fine example of the vernacular building tradition and of the type of construction and craftsmanship once a mainstay of many small rural communities. Thatching is a feature of this particular area and this house, therefore, helps to preserve an architectural typology that is rapidly being replaced by modern building methods. The thatched porch is relatively unusual and therefore of special interest.