Description

ST 9958 POTTERNE HIGH STREET
(east side)

14/159 Nos 7 and 8
(formerly listed as Nos 1 to 4
Porch House Cottages)
19.3.62
GV II

Pair of houses, c1600 timber-framed with plaster panels on rubble
stone plinth. Plain tile roof with C19 ridge stack and north end
stack on front slope. Two storeys, long 3-window range with
continuously jettied upper floor, close-studded ground floor and
square-framed first floor, each panel with concave-sided lozenge
decoration, unusual in Wiltshire. All windows renewed in late C19
with leaded cross-windows, three upper windows under small gablets,
a C19 invention, Ground foor has cross-window, plank door to No 7,
cross-window, C19 plank door to through passage and 5-light
transomed window. Rear has exposed framing and 3 C19 pointed
gabled dormers. Ground floor has heavy chamfered beams with bar
stops. One mid C18 corner fireplace with fluted keystone to No 7.
No 7 was probably the hall and parlour range, No 8 the kitchen of a
single house.
(Wiltshire Buildings Record)

Listing NGR: ST9948958434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550153

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