Description

BRADNINCH FORE STREET (west side),
SS 90 NE
Bradninch
11/20 No. 16 (Bradninch Green)
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GV II
House and shop premises. Built 1685 after the second major Bradninch fire, but
much altered and extended with a major refurbishment of 1923. Cob and stone mix,
plastered, the front range (part of a row) under a dry slate roof, the rear wing
tinder a gabled-end pantiled roof. Probably a former 3-room, cross-passage plann
house with a lower-end rear wing (to the right of site of passage). In the C19 the
premises became a butcher's shop with slaughterhouse to the rear, some of the
fittings of which survive. 2 storeys.
Front: 4 window range bearing the date of the refurbishment of 1923 with wagon
entrance to the right; hornless sash windows above, 4 panes per sash; 3 similar
windows to ground floor, with larger shop window to left, with shop entrance.
Entrance to house to the right, recessed, with panelled door. Moulded cornice.
Axial stack, probably marking former passage; left-hand end stack (also serves no.
14). Axial stack to C17 wing, formerly an end stack, with slaughter house beyond,
its roof ridge lower. Two 2-light casement windows to 1st floor, 3 below, one with
its original heavy wooden lintel. Door and 2-light opening to slaughter house.
Interior: one cross-beam, chamfered with scroll stops to wing; otherwise
completely reroofed in C19, although slaughter house roof is early C19. Additional
lower beams with hooks for hanging carcases; chopping block. Some tethering
uprights survive in the rear yard.

Listing NGR: SS9995404047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461596

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)