Description

SX 88 SE
3/245

TRUSHAM
BROADWAY (north side), Trusham
Crideford Inn

GV
II

House, said to have been Nunnery, now Inn. Probably C15/C16 with floors inserted
C16 and C17. Rendered stone rubble and cob walls. Corrugated iron roof, originally
thatched with gable ends. Tapered gable rendered rubble stack with brick shaft,
left; rendered lateral stack to rear and tapered axial stack with granite thatch
weatherings. 4-room plan, curved front wall and slightly serpentine rear wall with
bowed stair projection. 2 storeys. Irregular 5-window front. 2-light, C19
casements to first floor third and fourth from left. 6 panes each light. To ground
floor right is C16 oak mullioned window with 4 ogee-headed chamfered lights and
rebate for shutter in outer frame. Leaded glass in this and most other windows is
circa 1980. C20 door in second and fourth openings from left and far right opening.
Straight chamfered 2-light oak mullioned window in right gable end is only window to
first floor right hand bay. C20 extension to right.
Interior has oak jointed cruck roof structure said to be smoke blackened on
underside of thatch and roof timbers. 2 cruck frames seen, one with grown;
unjointed cruck to one side, threaded purlins. Chamfered and stopped oak lintels
over fireplaces in rooms 1, 2 and 3. Fireplace in room 3 has monolith granite jambs
and ovolo-moulded lintel from another building inserted circa 1980 below original
one. Chamfered and stopped cross beams in rooms 1 and 2 and scratch moulded joists
in rooms 1 and 3. Ovolo moulded cross beams with cross and stepped bar stops in
room 3, probably originally. the hall. Oak stud partition (now open) divides room 3
from room 4 which has floor and ceiling at lower level. 2 axial beams with wide
chamfers, stepped and run out stops and similar detail to joists suggest a C16 date
for this ceiling. Other ceiling beams are C17. Stair with solid oak treads was
removed from this room circa 1980. Date of 1081 in mosaic floor under cobbled floor
is said to have been seen when repairs were carried out.

Listing NGR: SX8553082312

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439667

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)