Description

ST6218 MILBORNE PORT CP NORTH STREET (West side)

12/181 No 160
(Brecon House)

II

Semi-detached house. C16 origins, modified C17 and C19. Part timber framed, part local stone coursed rubble, rendered
and colourwashed on front elevation: Bridgwater patent interlocking clay tile roof, gable overhangs; brick end chimney
stacks, one with stone base. 2 storeys, 3 bays, leaded casement windows, above 3-light casements with iron framed
opening lights; below a 1+3+1 light angled bay window on stone base with lead flat roof to bay 1, and to bay 3 a
2-light window inserted into an older stone stepped chamfer surround under a square label: five panel door with glazed
toplight set in recess to bay 2. Small single-storey extension with gabled plain clay tile roof and later casement
against South gable. Interior: fragments of two fireplaces, that in the North room with cambered arched timber lintol
and stone sides, moulded hollow and ogee; a fragment of early framed ceiling, with reverse ogee moulded beams,
fragments of stone and timber cambered arched doorways; in the East (front) wall remains of a timber frame; roof of
post and truss structure, but with one tenon-jointed cruck, the first two bays from the South windbraced and smoke
blackened. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1983).

Listing NGR: ST6771918701

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307950

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)