Description

SV 39 NE WOOTTON FITZPAINE
Thorn
lO4/2/10007

II

House. C16; possibly with earlier origins; altered circa late C19. Stone rubble. Clay Bridgwater tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stack. PLAN: 3-room plan; right-hand [N] room at the high end is a circa C19 addition. Between the lower left-hand end room and the centre room is a through-passage; the lower left room is heated from a large gable-end stack with an oven and has a winder staircase against the stack; the room on the higher right-hand side of the through-passage is unheated and divided axially by a timber partition. There are attic rooms. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical widely spaced 2-window east front with C20 replacement windows in small openings and central doorway. The north gable end wall and outshut at the rear have collapsed. Rear [W] elevation has circa late C17 wooden 3-light chamfered mullion window on left with carpenter's mitres [one mullion is missing]. INTERIOR: lower left room has deeply chamfered cross-beam and boarded over joists, large gable-end fireplace with timber bressumer and ovens. Plank-and-muntin screen on low side of cross-passage. Higher right-hand room has remains of axial partition with doorway with shouldered head. Roof structure replaced, but the post of a side-pegged jointed cruck truss remains at the rear of the lower end.

Listing NGR: SY3578895520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666954

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)