Description

SP 9821 TOTTERNHOE CHURCH GREEN

32/10021 No 34
Orchard House

- II

House. Circa C16/17, partly rebuilt in C18 and remodelled and extended in C19. Timber-
framed faced in Flemish bond brick and partly Flemish bond brick with burnt headers. Welsh
slate roofs with gabled ends. Brick gable end and axial stack. Plan: 3-room plan with 4th room
in wing behind right hand end. Timber-framed centre and right hand bays; the centre bay with
small stack bay on left with lobby entrance at front; the right hand bay with cellar below and
built out later at front. The left hand end was rebuilt in brick in circa C18. In C19 the rest of
the house was faced in brick and later in C19 a wing was built at the rear (SW). Exterior: 2
storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window N front. 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars and
cambered brick arches; right end projects and has C19 20-pane sash on ground floor; diaper
pattern brickwork on left; 4-panel door to left of centre with gabled canopy. 3-light casements
and doorways with cambered brick arches at rear. W side has casements and C19 20-pane sash.
Interior: Centre room broad joists and axial beam all chamfered with long hollow step stops,
beam supported on post with moulded head and large fireplace with unchamfered elm lintel.
Right hand bay divided axially, rear with large unchamfered joists and exposed wallfiaming,
cellar below with chamfered beam. Left room partitioned. Rear wing chamfered axial beam
with runout stops. Centre and right chambers exposed wall framing with tension braces and
jowled posts and partitions with exposed frames.

Listing NGR: SP9888421185

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588071

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