Description

SO 72 NW PAUNTLEY COMPTON GREEN

3/209 Pauntley Place

II

Marked as White House on O.S. Map. House. C17, altered early
C19, extended early C20. Timber framed with rendered square
panels, English-bond brickwork extension, tiled roof. T-plan,
with one angle infilled, 2 storeys with attics. Entrance front:
on right ground-floor rebuilt in brick, canted single-storey flat-
roofed bay, sash window, 3-pane upper, 2 pane lower. Leaded-
light window to left. Half-glazed front door on left in return of
projecting wing, 2 panels below, under 2-bay hipped, lean-to porch,
timber posts on stone bases, inset elliptical heads to openings.
Extension painted as timber-framing: 3 sash windows in gable, as
sashes in bay. First floor framing on right 3 panel high, further
panel above for attics. Sash window as bay below, further sash on
left set higher for stairs. Sash over front door, 2-pane upper,
single lower. Two sashes in gable on left, as for ground floor.
Right return timber-framed, jowls to main posts, single-pane window
in gable, V struts over. Left return ground floor bay with ogee
lead roof. Single-storey gabled wing set back on right, behind
garage: stone-walled cellar below, raised ground floor up brick
steps: part walling close-studded timber-framing. May be cut
down remains of earlier building.
Interior: 2 scratch-moulded boarded doors at back of entrance hall;
early C19 stairs to first floor, spiral stair thence to attics.
Late C17 mullion and transom window, iron opening light, survives
in kitchen. House originally L-plan; timber framed, lateral
stacks to each wing, with apparently unheated corner room. Narrow
bay in centre main side presumably for stairs. Lean-to added to
infill angle later. Early C20 addition front wing producing T-
plan; side wall some 375mm in front of original gable, which was
removed below the attic. Present entrance into extension.

Listing NGR: SO7391828754

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445465

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