Description

TWITCHEN SS 7830-7930 17/217 Moorland View - GV II House, possibly formerly part of larger house. Probably early C17, probably remodelled in the mid-to late C19. Coursed stone rubble and cob. Cob to first floor at front refaced in stone rubble in the C20. Some larger dressed stone quoins and C19 brick dressings. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof. Brick stacks. Plan: Two-room central-entrance plan, facing south-east. External end stack to larger principal right-hand room and integral end stack to smaller left-hand room. The house is probably a remodelling of a (possibly larger) C17 house. The old front doorway into the right-hand room was probably blocked when the present doorway was probably inserted in the C19. Cranked rear wall. Two storeys. Exterior: Roughly symmetrical front with 3 windows to first floor and 2 to ground floor; late C20 two-light wooden casements, those to ground floor with concrete lintels. Roughly central mid-C20 half-glazed door with wooden lintel and C19 gabled porch on shaped brackets. Blocked doorway to right of present door (see straight joints). Probably C18 central first-floor 2-light wooden casement lighting top of stairs to rear. Interior: C17 ceiling frame in right-hand ground-floor room consisting of chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists with jewelled and angled straight-cut stops. Large C17 open fireplace to right with dressed sandstone (large blocks) jambs and large wooden lintel. C17 ceiling frame in left-hand ground-floor room with C17 deep- chamfered cross beam and plain joists. C17 open stone fireplace to left with large dressed blocks to right-hand jamb and chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops. Central C19 staircase. Recess in end wall of right-hand bedroom, possibly former window. Roof-space not inspected. House undergoing building work at time of survey (October 1987).

Listing NGR: SS7887530476

External Links

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