Description

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DURLEY

SU51NW DURLEY STREET,
1879-0/3/10000 (South East side)
Elm Tree Farmhouse
GV II

House. Circa late C16, extended in C17, C18/19 and C20.
Timber-framed, faced and partly rebuilt in brick, painted.
Plain clay tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial
stacks.
PLAN: 4-room-plan main front range. The two centre rooms are
the original late C16 house with chambers above, the hall on
the right heated from a timber-framed chimney or smoke-bay on
the right hand [SW] end and a smaller, probably unheated, room
on the left. In circa C17 a brick stack replaced a
timber-framed chimney and a larger parlour was added at the
left [NE] end; a small unheated room was built on the right
end in the C17 or C18. The outshut across the back is an C18
or C19 addition and was heightened in the C20.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window north west
front. 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, two on
ground floor in cambered arched openings, small C20 canted bay
window to right of centre and three gabled half dormers. At
rear the main roof is carried down as catslide over outshut on
left; the remainder of the outshut to the right has been
raised to two storeys and has a flat roof.
INTERIOR: Hall has cyma-and-fillet moulded axial beam without
stops and large chamfered joists with hollow-step stops;
similarly moulded girding beam in central partition wall and
large brick fireplace with chamfered timber lintel without
stops and with oven. Small room to left of hall has chamfered
axial beam with step-stop at one end and ceiled joists. Larger
room at left [NE] end has chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops
and fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops.
In the chambers: exposed jowled posts, central partition with
straight braces to tie-beam and queen-struts to collar; left
chamber has exposed wind-brace. In the roof-space: clasped
purlins and wind-braces and common rafter couples intact; at
the south west end remains of the timber-framed chimney or
smoke-bay with a collar and studs, smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: SU5238617391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545576

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)