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SU45NW HIGHCLERE HIGHCLERE STREET 186-0/6/10013 Farthings

GV II

House. Possibly late Medieval, remodelled and partly rebuilt in circa late Cl7 and C18/19; altered in late C19 and C20. Timber-framed with brick nogging and English and Flemish bond brick; fish-scale tile-hanging at front. Plain clay tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack. PLAN: 3-room plan with axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating the centre and left hand rooms. The left [north] room with the axial stack appears to be a Cl7 brick addition while the other two bays comprise the earlier timber-framed house, the centre bay possibly an open hall, floored when the late Cl7 extension and stack were built. The front and south [right] end walls were rebuilt in brick probably in the late C18 or early C19. The small wash house wing at the rear of the left end is a circa late C18 or C19 addition. The partition between the centre and right [south] rooms has been partly removed. EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Almost symmetrical tile-hung west front, the attic windows in 3 small gables. C20 casements, 2 and 4-light on ground floor and 2-light to attic; doorway to left of centre with C19 brick gabled porch with elliptical arch. Timber-framing exposed at rear with curved tension-braces and brick nogging, C19 Gothic 2-light iron casement on ground floor, small gable above and small single-storey wing on right with half-hipped roof. INTERIOR: Timber-framed partition walls exposed, partition between centre and right hand room partly removed, both these rooms have deeply chamfered axial beams, the centre with hollow step-stops and with brick fireplace with slightly chamfered cambered timber lintel. The small left [north] room has deeply chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and brick fireplace with a curved back, oven and new lintel. On the first floor a queen-post truss is exposed in the partition; curved wind-braces. Clasped purlins and some re-used common-rafters appear to be smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: SU4436159744

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• Wikidata Q26530995

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