Description

SU 3853 HURSTBOURNE TARRANT CHURCH STREET
(North Side)

10/71 Martins and Old Plough

GV II

Two houses, once (with Little Plough) a coaching inn. C16 timber-framed
building at right angles to the roadway with late C18 recladding and westward
extension. and an early C19 front elevation. Brick, flint, slate and tile.
The regular front (south-west) is 2 storeys, 4 windows. Hipped slate roof with
wide eaves on wrought-iron brackets. Red brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed
flat arches, stone cills, plinth. Sashes in reveals. 2 doorways with thin
canopies on carved brackets, one 6-panelled another (Martins) 4 panelled door.
The east and upper wall continues as a mask to the side elevation of the old
part, which has a tile roof, flint walls (part coursed knapped flint part
horizontal panels) with brick dressings and an attached stack dated 1835. One
old upper casement frame is now blocked, 2 lower casements and a blocked
doorway. The rear elevation has a tile roof narrow horizontal flint panels
and casements. The interior exposes part of the old frame, with an arch brace
to one truss, and a beam with diagonal sockets (for mullions).

Listing NGR: SU3828053139

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26448883

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)