Description

BLACKMORE

TL6001 THE GREEN 723-1/15/49 (North side) 28/07/88 Lundishes (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD THE GREEN, Blackmore (North side) Lundishes)

GV II

House and shop, now a house. Early C15, altered in C17 and late C18. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded with C18 facade of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing S, with C17 stack in rear of right bay. 2-bay cross-wing to right, projecting forwards. C20 single-storey lean-to extension at left end, and C20 boiler-house with hipped roof to rear of stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. All windows are C20 casements. C20 half-glazed door at right end of main range. C20 pargeting in traditional geometric patterns. The left gable and the right side of the cross-wing are weatherboarded. The cross-wing is jettied to the front, with exposed joists of horizontal section and 2 original plain brackets. The upper part of the stack has been rebuilt in the C20, from about 0.80m below eaves level. The left end of the main roof is hipped, with a gabled dormer in the hip. INTERIOR: jowled posts, heavy studding. The left bay of the main range is much altered; plain joists of reused timber. The central post of the partition between this bay and the hall has mortices for an original partition in the left bay, now missing; there is some reason to believe that this end was formerly a cross-wing projecting forwards, similar to the existing cross-wing. The partition at the left end of the hall has flush curved display bracing, peg-holes of large diameter for the former 'high end' fixed bench, and an inserted doorway at the rear end, now blocked; present doorway in front of central post. C18 partition near right end, separating original cross-entry from main part of hall, mostly of reused timber with primary straight bracing and handmade nails. Wide wood-burning hearth with 0.33m jambs and reused mantel beam from a still wider hearth, chamfered with a mitred stop near the left end only. The original rear wall of the hall has been raised to full 2-storey height in the C18, with primary straight bracing and light studding. C18 wood-burning hearth on the first floor, with 0.23m jambs and plain mantel beam. Clasped purlin roof of hardwood and reused smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval roof, probably of the same building. Softwood rafters carry the front pitch of the roof over the brick facade. The cross-wing has a blocked doorway at the left end of the jettied elevation, with a 3-centred arch head; pegging indicates the former presence of arched shop windows. One of the former twin service doorway is intact, with chamfered jambs and 3-centred head; the other is blocked, but the chamfered girt indicates its position. The studded partition between the bays has been removed and rebuilt at an early date about one metre to the rear of its original position to enlarge the shop bay. Plain horizontal joists, framed round an original stair trap in the left rear corner, blocked. In the right wall of the rear bay is an unglazed window, with 2 incomplete diamond mullions. The upper floor is undivided and open to the roof, with exposed framing. The rear wall has curved bracing trenched inside the studs; the other walls have the bracing trenched outside the studs. Unglazed window in right side of rear bay with shutter rebate in wallplate; C20 diamond mullions. The wallplates are chamfered with step stops; near the rear ends they are scarfed, apparently with tenons and bridles, reinforced with iron plates. Crownpost roof almost complete. Some rafters in the left pitch of the rear bay have been severed, apparently for a former stack, and restored with matching reused timbers. Gauging holes in all original rafters. Cambered central tie-beam and one original arched brace, both chamfered with step stops. A similar arched brace at the right is C20 restoration. Plain crownpost with curved braces down to tie-beam. The collar-purlin is a single timber 7.90m long, with 4 axial braces. Collars complete.

Listing NGR: TL6032601902

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491660

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)