Description

WHITSTONE WHITSTONE HEAD
SX 29 NE
7/93 Oak
GV
II

House, one time used as Royal Oak public house. Circa late C16/early C17 core, C19
additions and alterations, C20 roof and changes to floor levels. Colourwashed cob
on stone plinth, colourwashed stone lateral front stack with freestone chimney,
brick chimney to left lower gable end, left gable end rebuilt in brick and slate
hung in C20. Asbestos slate roof, formerly thatched. Corrugated iron roof to rear
right outshut. 2 room cross passage plan with off-centre entrance into passage,
now stair hall. Hall (former bar) to right of passage, kitchen (former so-called
cellar) on ground floor to left of passage. There may have been an inner room to
right which is now not present. Rear outshut: rear right former public house
snug, truncated stack to snug fireplace on right gable end wall. 2 storey, 2
window front, front right projects forward slightly, possibly extended forward to
front plane of formerly projecting lateral stack. Ground floor window left 2 light
casement with glazing bars; ground floor window to right of stack, 3-light casement
with glazing bars. First floor window left, 2-light casement with glazing bars;
first floor window to left of stack 3-light casement with glazing bars, formerly 2-
light. Interior: massive fireplace to former bar retains one granite jamb,
fireplace beam replaced by metal girder. Stout, roughly-hewn ceiling beams, some
with runout stops, some with straight cut stops. Oak benches on brackets fixed to
2 walls. 3 plank oak door with strap hinges and gudgeon-hook, similar door into
ground floor room left which retains unhewn axial ceiling beam reset in C20.

Listing NGR: SX2642198540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435231

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