Description

BURRINGTON TWITCHEN LANE
SS 61 NW

5/40
- Meadow House
20.2.67
- II

House, formerly vicarage. Some late medieval fabric survives, but heavily
remodelled in late C18. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Concrete tiled
roof to front of gable-ended main range, asbestos slate roof to rear, and slate roof
with hipped end to rear service wing.
Rendered axial stack, stack at left gable end; axial stack and demolished shaft to
stone rubble stack to end of service wing.
Plan: Main range conforms to a 3-room and wide cross-passage plan, the lower end to
left, with stack backing onto the passage which contains dog-leg staircase to the
rear. Long service range extends at right angles to rear creating T-shaped plan.
Part of a reused smoke-blackened ridge survives near the axial stack suggesting the
core of the building is medieval in origins. However, the axial stack forms a
solid wall partition and appears to have once formed a gable end, suggesting the
lower end including the wide passage were added as part of the C18 remodelling. The
medieval plan is therefore not recoverable; certainly the main range until the
circa 1920s extended a further 2 bays, including an additional entrance, at the
right gable end.
2 storeys. 4-window range. 16-paned sashes throughout, the ground floor sashes
rising virtually from ground level; all are hornless except at ground floor right
end. Off-centre doorway with shallow bracketted timber canopy, panelled doorcase
and raised and fielded 6-panelled door with decorative fanlight.
Interior: Late C18 and early C19 joinery mostly survives throughout including 6-
panelled doors to ground floor, some 2-panelled doors to upper storey, panelled
window shutters, and dog-leg staircase lit by semi-circular arched rear stair
window, with stick balusters and moulded and wreathed handrail ramped up to turned
newels. Decorative moulded plaster cornices to the principal 2 rooms each side of
the passage, the left-hand room retaining C19 marble chimneypiece.
Wide-span, roof structure, principally C18 with rough pegged trusses, but section of
smoke-blackened ridge purlin survives close to axial stack.

Listing NGR: SS6382817046

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504911

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hertfordshire (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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)