Description

THIRKLEBY HIGH AND LOW -
SE 48 SE WITH OSGODBY

1/53 High Osgodby Grange
GV II
Farmhouse with outbuilding. Early-mid C18 altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared
stone, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; the left part has second
parallel range to rear from which extends single-storey rear wing; the right part
has a rear outshut. Garden front: outer bays project; plinth; C20 2 or 3-light
transomed casement windows with projecting sills and early keyed lintels. Central
6-panel door, the top four panels glazed, with 3-pane overlight and narrow window
above flanked by wider windows on each floor. Right bay blind. Left bay has narrow
windows as before. Roof comes down tower over outer bays. Ashlar coping. M-section
roof with early red brick ridge stack between 2 left bays and smaller cross-ridge
stack between right bays. Rear: outshut on left under catslide roof has slatted
opening to left and wide, flat-arched window to right. The 2-storey range on the
right has later door to left, a blocked former doorway with keyed lintel to right
and a similarly-lintelled window above on left. The wing has plinth, chamfered
eaves band, cyma-moulded kneelers and ashlar coping. Left return: the front range
has attic window with keyed lintel; a similarly-lintelled window to each floor of
rear range, the first floor window being a 12-pane sash. Right return: on left,
a flat-arched stable door with small window to its left; on right, inserted garage
door with timber lintel; in gable, board door with overlight under flat arch.
Interior: panelled doors, including fine double-door at first floor landing level;
panelled cupboard under stair. Room to left of main (garden front) entrance has:
inglenook with chamfered, cambered bressummer supported on corbel from wall on left
and heck post on right; large scantling spine-beam; cyma-moulded cornice. Dog-leg,
open-string stair with moulded handrail and 2 turned balusters per tread to all
but lowest flight. Spiral stair up to left end of front attic which is separated
from the rest of the attic and has a collared principal rafter roof truss and square
section rafters and ridge-piece; rest of front attic has similar trusses with angle
braces to collars and tusk-tenoned purlins. Rear attic: one truss visible, having
king post with collar forming cross and V struts.

Listing NGR: SE4936180296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443514

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair