Description

WELFORD-ON-AVON

SP1451 HIGH STREET
1931-1/8/165 (East side)
02/08/72 Thorn Cottage and Thornette
(Formerly Listed as:
MAIN STREET
(East side)
Thorn Cottage)

GV II

2 houses. C17 with C18 and C19 additions and extensive 1991
restoration. Extensively restored timber-frame with brick
infill on rubble plinth forming 2-unit plan, single-unit
addition with thinner scantlings and brick addition to right
end; renewed tile roof with brick end stack and rear stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. 2 central entrances under
pentice with C20 plank doors, and entrance with glazed door to
right of centre. Renewed bay window to left has hipped roof; 2
windows with renewed casements and C20 window to right end.
First floor has 2 partly renewed windows to left of centre
with iron opening casements, and small window to right of
centre with leaded glazing to 2-light casement.
Left return is brick with stack off-centre to right; right
return has C20 entrance and windows. Square framing to left
half has raised eaves; timber-framing to right has thin
scantlings.
Rear similar, with brick central section by stack with
gathered-in shaft; entrance with late C20 door; one window has
2-light casement with iron opening casement, other windows
have renewed casements including 2 C20 gabled dormers.
INTERIOR: of Thorn Cottage: chamfered beams and fireplace with
bressumer and bread oven with iron door.

Listing NGR: SP1495251952

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662872

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)