Description

EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON
SS 71 SE
8/29 The Old Poor House
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- II
House. Late C17. Cob and rubble core, smooth-rendered and colourwashed, straw-
thatched roof; gable end stacks with C20 brick shafts.
Plan: symmetrical 2-room plan, central lobby with straight-flight staircase, room to
each side of similar size, gable-end fireplaces.
Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical front of 3-windows, 2-light C19 casements with
close-set glazing bars. Central-door opening, plain C19 plank door.
Interior: each fireplace to ground floor with a chamfered wooden bressumer, that to
left with bread oven and evidence of adjacent former staircase, present stair C19.
Roof: part of the original roof survives, 2 trusses with lapped collars and ridges,
remainder renewed.
First floor stated to have been used as the Village Institute in the C19. Prominent
roadside position.

Listing NGR: SS7705613428

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611031

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)