Description

BLACKMORE

TL6001 THE GREEN
723-1/15/48 (North side)
20/02/76 Laurences
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
THE GREEN, Blackmore
(North side)
Laurences)

GV II

Formerly known as: Poplars THE GREEN.
House. Early C17, incorporating a fragment of a medieval
house, extended in C18 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW, with
central stack, incorporating part of the parlour/solar bay of
a medieval house in the right bay. C17 one-bay wing to rear of
stack. C18 extension to right, on site of medieval hall, with
external stack at end. C20 single-storey lean-to at left end
and along rear to C17 wing. Rear wing to right, c1985.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. 4-window range of C20 metal casements, C20
door and bracketed canopy. C18 facade with modillioned cornice
and parapet, and C20 pargeting. Grouped diagonal shafts on
main stack, rebuilt. The right stack has a string course just
above eaves level, and in the right face a recessed panel
above, with a flat brick arch and a band across.
INTERIOR: the right ground-floor hearth of the main stack has
a chamfered mantel beam with mitred stops and 0.33m jambs, and
a salt recess of which the shaped head is crumbled away. The
entire timber frame to right of this is plastered over, up to
roof level, concealing its historic character. The left
ground-floor hearth is blocked. To left of the stack the only
exposed timber is a deeply chamfered axial beam with lamb's
tongue stops. The main roof is of joggled butt-purlin
construction, with reused medieval rafters, smoke blackened
and trenched for former collars; but at the right end it
incorporates three and a half undisturbed medieval rafter
couples, the last couple only being smoke blackened. It is
likely that some medieval timber structure survives below this
level, concealed by the plaster. The roof of the rear wing is
also of joggled butt-purlin construction. The roof of the
right extension is ridged, of clasped purlin construction.
There is an arched recess inside the right stack at roof
level, possibly for a former hearth; the arch is severed.
(Jennings: OS map: 1873-).

Listing NGR: TL6046001861

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500669

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (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)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)