Description

ST 7813
9/85

STURMINSTER NEWTON
NEWTON (NORTH SIDE)
No 86

G.V.
II

House, possibly C15 with a number of later additions and alterations. Brick
(Flemish bond), rubble and timber framed walls, thatched roof with gable ends.
Brick stacks one third in from each end. Single storey with attic, 4 window-
range. All ground floor openings under wooden lintels. 2, 3 and 4-light C20 wooden
casements throughout. Left gable has an exposed jointed cruck truss. Internally
the plan is of 3 rooms with a cross passage. Smoke blackened timbers have been
found in the roof and the building probably originated as an open hall. Internal:
jointed cruck truss in attic, 2 chamfered square-headed timber doorways with
shouldered jambs in cross passage, deep stopped chamfered beams and wall plates.
"RCHM, Dorset Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 284, no 55.

Listing NGR: ST7816213429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26404197

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)