Description

SS 90 SW THORVERTON
8/106 Higher Dunsaller
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GV II
House. C17 with C20 renovations and alterations. Whitewashed plastered cob;
thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at left end, gabled at right end; end stacks
to main range, projecting lateral stack to wing, all with brick shafts.
Plan C20 alterations have made it difficult to decipher the original plan, the
overall plan at present is an L with the main range on a north-south axis and an
east-west wing at the north end, parallel to the road. It is possible that the house
has been turned round and that the wing was the C17 main range but there are C17
carpentry details in both blocks. The present main range is a single depth 2 room
plan arrangement with an entrance into the left hand room and a C20 stair in the
centre. The east wing has 1 heated room and a narrow room (possibly a former
passage) adjacent to the main range. Former farmbuildings adjoining the end of the
wing have been converted to house accommodation and a C20 porch has been added in the
angle between the 2 blocks.
Exterior 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 3 window west front with a thatched porch
and C20 front door to left of centre ; C19 or C20 timber casement windows with
glazing bars including 2 separately-roofed attic dormers.
Interior Largely modernized but some C17 features survive. Ground floor room right
has a partly-blocked C17 fireplace with chamfered volcanic stone jambs and a scroll-
stopped lintel. The wing has an axial beam which extends through both the heated and
narrow unheated rooms, chamfered but scroll-stopped in the narrow unheated room only.
Roof X apex pegged collar rafter roof trusses. The roofspace is plastered and a thin
partition with cob infill projects into the roof approximately above the stairs. The
roofspace over the wing has a complete plastered partition with a chamfered stopped
C17 doorframe.

Listing NGR: SS9213001964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552109

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)