Description

WHITBOURNE
SO 75 NW
10/10000 MOSELEY BANK
II

House. Circa late C17, extended in circa C18 and C19. Timber
framed with painted brick panels. Plain tile roof with gabled
and hipped ends. Brick end stacks.
Plan: 3-room plan with outshut at rear. The end rooms have
gable end stacks, and there is a cross-passage between the centre
unheated room and right hand room, the original kitchen; the
passage partition appears to be a late insertion and the left
hand room is a parlour added in circa C18. The outshut is a C19
enlargement of an earlier outshut.
Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3 window south front
C20 3-light casements with leaded panes, the attic windows in 3
gabled half dormers through eaves. Doorways to left and right
of centre with C20 open timber gabled porches, that on right with
C20 glazed door. At rear the main roof is carried down as
catslide over outshut with brick lateral stack on right.
Interior: Right hand room has chamfered axial beam with cyma
stop at inner end (now a passage). Large fireplace with timber
lintel covered over, bread oven with iron door and niche said to
be for drying grain. Centre room has chamfered axial beam with
cyma stops, unchamfered joists and C20 stairs. Left hand room
has 2 thin chamfered cross-beams, large corner cupboard with
fielded panel doors and simple wooden chimneypiece with bead
moulded arris. In the attic chambers the tie-beam and queen post
trusses are exposed and are set on unjowled storey posts.
Internally and externally the boxframing is exposed and has
regular square panels and some tension braces.

Listing NGR: SO7226857302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512082

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)