Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-

ST 55 NW BLAGDON STATION ROAD

10/10016 Walnut Tree House

II

House. C17, possibly with earlier origins. Roughcast over local rubble, exposed to front, with stone
coping to Roman tile roofwith brick stacks. Original 2-unit plan with left-end stack to heated room
and originally unheated small service room to right, rear central stairs and left-hand stair to rear of
open fireplace. 2 storeys. 2-window front with timber lintels over blocked doorway to left, late C20
door to right, 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 casements and 8/8-pane sash to right; probable C18
pegged wooden flame to 3-fight window on ground-floor left. C19 gabled addition parallel to rear,
and single-storey additions to right in similar materials. Interior noted as having retained all original
stop-chamfered beams and roof trusses with dove-tailed collars and morticing for in-line purlins.
Open fireplace to left with wooden bressummer and 2 recesses to rear (one with cockshead hinges
to door); solid-tread stairs rise from first-floor to attic above. Another solid-tread wooden stairs to
rear wall, set into slight recess. C17 plank and batten doors with scribed edging and original
wrought-iron fittings. Reset C17 pegged wooden doorframes. A well-preserved example of the
2-unit plan which became increasingly common from the later C17 in this area: many original
interior features, the solid-tread stairs being particularly rare and notable survivals of a formerly
common vernacular type.

Listing NGR: ST5026259292

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529380

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6