Description

DUNSFORD
SX 89 SW

6/16 Lockhouse

- II

House. Late medieval origins, late C16/early C17 alterations. Whitewashed rendered
cob on stone rubble footings, water reed thatched roof half-hipped at ends, 2 axial
stacks.
The present plan is of 2 heated rooms on either side of a through passage (front door
blocked) with an additional small room to the right (lower) end. The house has
evolved from a late medieval open hall which was remodelled in the circa late
C16/early C17 probably as a 3 room and through passage house with the hall stack
backing on to the passage, a rear stair turret to the hall, a lower end room that may
have been unheated and an inner room; the inner room no longer exists. The small
room adjoining the lower end is probably a later outbuilding or service room which
has been incorporated into the house accommodation, the lower end is now heated from
the right-hand axial stack.
2 storeys. Irregular 5-window front, the eaves thatch eyedbrowed over the left-hand
window and rising as a gabled dormer over the right-hand first floor window. Present
entrance on front at right with a plank and cover strip front door under a slated
canopy carried on brackets. Projecting oven on the front to the left-hand axial
stack, a window to the right of the stack replaces the former front door to the
through passage. Fenestration of C20 2-light windows, mostly casements with 2 panes
per light except for ground floor left which is a 3-light casement. The rear
elevation has an attractive rounded stair turret with a separately thatched half-
hipped roof and a C17 2-light chamfered timber mullioned stair window. The left-hand
end wall of the house suggests that the building formerly extended further to the
left.
Interior A number of good interior features survive. The hall, at the left end, has
one granite monolith and one stone rubble jamb and a chamfered lintel; chamfered
cross beam with step stops. A chamfered stopped doorway leads into the stair turret.
The lower end room has a smaller fireplace and a chamfered stopped cross beam. C17
2-plank doors survive. The first floor has a chamfered stopped doorframe into the
chamber over the lower end. The rafters and battens over the lower end room are
smoke-blackened, the main lower end truss has been replaced but a smoke-blackened
jointed cruck with a straight collar survives over the hall.
A good cob and thatch house of late medieval origins with a particularly fine stair
turret and some C17 joinery.

Listing NGR: SX8193689737

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576932

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)