Description

TQ 94/9599
12/135

SOUTHMINSTER
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Nos. 12 and 14

GV
II

Pair of houses with shop to right. C18 features to High Street, C16 or earlier
frame. Timber framed, plastered facing, band and parapet. Red plain tiled
roofs, hipped to left and right. 2 red brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys. 2:2:1
window range first floor, 2:2 range to ground floor of small paned vertically
sliding sashes, with C19/C20 shop front to right. Two 6 panelled doors, that to
left now with 4 lights, reveal panels, moulded surrounds, friezes, flat canopies
on brackets. Of complex internal plan, the building to right, No. 12, has a
medieval timber frame with visible arch brace to first floor tie beam, there
may be a crown post above this tie, but no access to roof is possible at time of
re-survey. Solid brace to ground floor bridging joist. Jowled storey posts.
Splat balusters and moulded handrail to first floor landing.

Listing NGR: TQ9579299754

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530599

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (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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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)