Description

WYMONDHAM

TG1001 CHURCH STREET
655-1/8/36 (North West side)
29/12/50 No.8
Churchgate House

GV II

House. Early C16. Timber-framed with rendered and colourwashed
brick facade. Plaintile roof, corrugated tile to rear slopes.
L-plan. Main part of front of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 3
bays. Panelled central door with timber doorcase and plain
hood. One early C19 three-light casement right and left. 2
similar casements above these and a 2-light casement over
door. Gabled roof in 2 pitches with one gabled dormer.
Internal gable end stack to north, rebuilt. Adjacent bay to
south has a garage door to ground floor and exposed studs
above. One upper window. Gabled roof with rebuilt ridge stack.
2 storey cross wing extends to rear to right of a 2-light
ovolo moulded first floor window to rear of front range. North
side of cross wing with an outshut to ground floor. Above is
an 8-light diamond mullioned window. Gabled roof in 2 pitches.
Rebuilt stacks. South side with a gabled dormer.
INTERIOR. Timber-framed passage leads from street door. Main
room to south with chamfered bridging beam. Inserted early C17
fireplace and stack. Fireplace bressumer with sunk quadrant
moulding and one rose medallion each side (one York, the other
Lancaster). Corresponding room north of passage lined out
c1950. Staircase turret inserted in internal angle of cross
wing c1560: closed string, turned and pillar balusters and
newels, mostly late C20 replacements. Upper floor with heavy
scantling studs, jowled principal studs and arched braces to
rear wall of front range. North first-floor room with
4-centred brick fireplace, as has rear wing first-floor room.
Roof of main range of diminished principals, collars, 2 tiers
butt purlins and curved windbracing. Rear range roof of
principals, 2 tiers butt purlins and some straight
windbracing.

Listing NGR: TG1084401541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491209

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)