Description

HOLCOMBE ROGUS SOUTH STREET, Holcombe Rogus ST 01 NE 5/130 Nos 7 and 8 - GV II House, now 2 cottages and workshop. Late C16 - early C17, probably earlier core. The house was divided into 2 cottages apparently in the C19, No. 7 has a C20 service extension. Plastered walls, the rear wall is cob on stone rubble footings, the front wall is all stone rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick (the service end chimneyshaft is plastered); No. 7's roof is asbestos slate, No. 8's roof is corrugated iron, both were formerly thatch. Plan and development: 2 cottages occupying a former 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-west. No. 7 occupies the right (south-east) end. It has a 2- room plan, the former passage (now a narrow unheated room blocked each end) and the former service end kitchen which has a gable-end stack. There is now a C20 service extension to rear of the service end kitchen. No.8 is a 2-room workshop which was formerly a cottage. Before that it was the hall and narrow inner room of the original house. The former hall has a projecting rear lateral stack. The early history of the house is difficult to determine due to the subsequent subdivision and modernisation of the house. However it seems likely that the late C16 - early C17 house was not an open hall house; it was floored throughout from the beginning. Both cottages are thus 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front overall of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, the oldest ones on No.8. The front doorway of No.7 is roughly central to the cottage and it contains a C20 door and contemporary gabled porch. The original passage front doorway is blocked by the window to left. No.8 also has a roughly central doorway containing a C19 plank door. This has been inserted into the former hall. The roof is gable-ended, stepping down a little from No. 8 to No.7. Interior: the service end kitchen (No.7) has a stone rubble fireplace with replacement oak lintel and the crossbeam here has deep soffit-chamfers with one straight cut stop. In the small unheated room alongside, the former passage, the upper (hall side) partition is an oak plank-and-muntin screen containing a blocked doorway. In No. 8, the former hall has axial beams with deep soffit chamfers and roll stops. At the time of the survey the hall fireplace was in accessible although it is thought to be intact. At the upper end of the hall is another oak plank-and- muntin screen, between the hall and the narrow unheated inner room. The whole building has a similar and interesting roof structure. The trusses have straight principals onto the front stone wall and side-pegged jointed crucks into the rear cob wall. The roofspace was not inspected but it is not thought to be smoke- blackened. Nos. 7 and 8 South Street are part of a group of listed buildings in the attractive village of Holcombe Rogus.

Listing NGR: ST0574318856

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990