Description

OTHAM STREET
TQ 75 SE OTHAM
(West Side)
3/234 Madam Taylors
Cottages
23.5.67
GV II
House, formerly cottages, now house. Mid-to-late C16 with later alterations.
Restored in 1970's. Timber-framed. Rendered, with exposed principal
posts and tension brace to right end of ground floor. Plain tile roof.
5 timber-framed bays, forming 3 rooms on each floor; one single-bay
room to left (south) and two 2-bay rooms. Probably originally faced
west. 2 storeys. Projecting red and grey brick gable end stacks in
English bond, with moulded brick off-sets and chamfered stone bases.
Filleted flue to left stack, right flue rebuilt. Plain projecting red
and grey brick stack in English bond to present front elevation, at
junction of second and third timber-framed bays from left. Short 2-storey
rendered wing projecting forwards from left end bay, with hipped plain
tile roof. Narrow adjoining but shorter former stair turret between it and
front stack. Brick lean-to to most of rest of front elevation.
Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one 2-light to left end wing, one
very small single-light to turret, and one 2-light to right end. Panelled
door within lean-to. Interior: roll-and-cavetto-moulded cross and axial
beams to central ground-floor room (second and third timber-framed bays
from left) and heavily-chamfered joists to same area on first floor.
Right end room (fourth and fifth timber-framed bays) with less pronounced
moulding to cross and axial beams on both floors. 4-centred arched stone
ground-floor fireplace to each stack, with similar mouldings, that to
central room slightly more ornate and with initials T.H. to spandrels.
Painted panelling to right end room, and to part of central room on
ground floor. Linenfold panelling in a variety of designs land possibly
partly re-positioned) to all four walls of subdivided first floor central
room. Initials T.H. possibly refer to Thomas Henley, (d.1590), owner of
Gore Court from about 1550 and of other property from 1536.

Listing NGR: TQ7979153698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542973

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)