Description

WILBURTON HIGH STREET
TL 4874 (South Side)

23/40 Eastleigh

GV II

House. C15 origin, mid C17, and c1720. Some rebuilding to front first floor
and north end of c1840. Timber-frame, c1720 narrow local brick as casing and
early C19 grey gault brick. Plain tiled roof with grey gault brick ridge
stack and south end stack. Single range plan with lobby entry from east side
and service on south end. Two storeys and attic. Front wall mainly of c1720
narrow, local brick, Flemish bond, with part of first floor repaired and
rebuilt in c1840 grey gault brick. Three first floor modern flush frame
twelve pane hung sashes in open boxing. Three similar ground floor windows
and doorway to lobby entry. Doorway has panelled door and cut bracketted
hood. South gable end has mid C17 exposed framing. The house was extended on
west side by a few feet up to the road in c1720, when the brick caisng was
carried out. It forms a lean-to passage or corridor parallel to the main
rooms of the mid C17 house. The north end has turning corners. At the south
end the service range has early C18 narrow local brick in the front and larger
red brick, of late C17-early C18 on the rear. Single storey. Interior: The
C15 origins remain in a main beam and heavy unmoulded joists above the
inglenook in a room on the south end of the house. The inglenook is mid C17
but the area of ceiling framing is C15. Some framing is visible including
ovolo main beams and wall framing of the original external wall on the west
side which has been internal since the c1720 alterations. This framing has
straight downward joists. There is a middle rail. A parlour hearth at the
north end has original brickwork and wood lintel. At the south end there are
back-to-back inglenooks.

Listing NGR: TL4835674876

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419927

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)