Description

WITHIEL
SX 06 NW
4/145 The Hawthorns
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II

Farmhouse. Early C18, with later alterations and additions, including alterations of
early C19 and some later alterations. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings.
Slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks, in
rubble to left and with rendered shaft to right. The addition to right has a rag
slate roof with gable end and stack with brick shaft.
Plan: 2-room plan, with a larger room to left and smaller parlour to right, each room
heated from a gable end stack; there may originally have been a central passage, and
therefore the rooms would have been equal size originally. Probably in circa mid
C18, an addition was made to rear left, as an unheated dairy with apple loft over,
and a winder stair. In the early C19, and addition was made at the right end and to
rear right, with another apple loft. C20 addition to rear left and right.
Exterior: 2 storeys, a symmetrical 3-window front; all windows are early C19 16-pane
sashes. Central double doors, with internal porch and inner half-glazed C20 door.
The ground floor openings have segmental brick arches. Single storey addition to
right, rendered, with 2 small C20 windows. The left side is rendered with a
buttress, and small single storey C20 addition. The right side has single storey C20
addition with door and window. At the rear, the roof is continuous over the main
range and the outshut; 3 C20 windows.
Interior: The front room to left has fireplace with roughly hewn chamfered timber
lintel, and remains of cloam oven to right. Remains of two roughly hewn beams, the
rest of early C19. Step up to the room to right. Winder stair with stick balusters.
At first floor there are 3 rooms, divided by wooden panelled partitions; all 3 rooms
have 2-panelled fielded doors. Roof not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX0123266251

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598045

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)