Description

SX 79 SE
2/84

TEDBURN ST MARY
GOLDCROSS HILL
Melhuish Down Cottage

II

Small house. Late C17 or earlier. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble
footings; thatched roof gabled at ends; left end stack, front lateral projecting
stack with rectangular bread oven.
The present plan is 2 rooms and a cross passage with a rear outshut the entire length
of the house under a catslide roof. The original plan may have been 2 rooms and a
passage with a hall/kitchen to the right and a lower end room to the left, the left-
hand end of the house has been rebuilt. There is some evidence of a former external
rear stair turret which suggests that the outshut is a later addition. A straight
stair has been inserted in the passage which may have been widened to accommodate it.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with the large stack with bread oven to right
of centre and a large C20 glazed thatched porch to the passage to left of centre. A
second door on the front to the right of the stack gives direct access into the hall.
Fenestration of 2-light casements, 2 panes per light.
Interior A number of C17 features survive. The hall fireplace has been largely
rebuilt, the hall has 2 chamfered cross beams with bar and step stops, exposed
joists, plank and muntin oak screen with chamfered muntins with step stops. The apex
of the roofspace is ceiled but an early roof structure may exist.
This house has an unusually small circa late C17 hall which shares the features found
in larger co-eval houses. The continuously thatched outshut is an attractive feature
of a building which backs directly on to Goldcross Hill.

Listing NGR: SX7920993582

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510794

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)