Description

THORNHAM PARVA BULL ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
TM 17 SW
3/96 Nos. 216 and 217
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GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Late C15, floor inserted and extended with stack in
early C17, altered C19. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. Originally
a Z bay open hall with a lower storeyed service/solar bay, narrower parlour
and stack added to form a 3 cell lobby entry plan. Now all 2 storeys. Lobby
entrance with a boarded door into parlour addition set back slightly with an
axial ridge stack between hall and parlour. 1, 2 and 3-light glazing bar
casements, ground floor hoodboards. An additional entrance with a boarded
door into hall, cross passage entrance blocked. Right gable end pentice
board, clay lump outshut. Left gable end pentice board, 3-light attic window,
exposed plates and purlins, C20 lean-to outshut. To rear a boarded door in
cross passage position, small 6-light window to service bay, to right 3-light
glazing bar casements, parlour set back. Interior: ground floor, hall has an
inserted floor, binding beam with a broad flat base with ogee to chamfered
terminals, stop chamfered joists, framing largely concealed, a large 8-light
diamond mullioned transomed window at hall upper end, early doorways to 2
service rooms with an early staircase to solar. First floor close studding,
arched bracing in walls, chamfered arched braces and tie beam to open truss
with an octagonal crown post, roll moulded bell shaped base, capital and upper
bracing concealed. Parlour has 2 light diamond mulliond window opening on
first floor, collars to side purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM1096472726

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284604

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]