Description

DUNSFORD
SX 79 SE
2/127 Sweet Meadows

GV II

Small house. Late medieval origins, early C17 remodelling, late C20 additions at
left end. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, thatched roof gabled at
ends, end stacks to old house which is at the right hand end of the present range.
The present plan is a single depth block at the right, formerly 2 heated rooms but
with the central partition now removed. A 1980s addition at the left-hand end
replaces former outbuildings. The late medieval roof of the right-hand block
suggests that it may be the former hall and inner room of a 3-room house with the
passage and lower end to the right dismantled. In the circa early C17 the hall was
floored over.
2 storeys. 2+2-window front, the right-hand end of the house approximately
symmetrical with a central C20 front door below a thatched porch canopy, and 2-light
C19 casements, 6 panes per light. The late C20 addition has 2-light plastic
casements.
Interior The circa early C17 hall has an open fireplace at the right end with stone
rubble jambs and a chamfered lintel with an ogee stop. The cross beam is cambered
and deeply chamfered with step stops; exposed joists. The fireplace at the left end
is smaller with a timber lintel and may be C18. Smoke-blackened rafters and battens
survive above the whole length of the right-hand end of the house on either side of a
later cob partition in the roofspace. No smoke-blackened principal rafters survive
but a later, circa C18 X apex truss has been inserted below the late medieval
rafters.
A partly late medieval house with internal late C17 features.

Listing NGR: SX7801990008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509708

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)