Description

SJ 30 NE
1101/9/10002

WESTBURY
STONEY STRETTON
House east of Yew Tree Farm

II
House, now derelict. C17. Timber-framed, partly with brick nogging, partly clad in weatherboards and partly rebuilt in brick. Steeply-pitched gable-ended roof clad in corrugated sheet steel. Brick gable-end stack.

PLAN: three bay plan. The right-hand [east] bay is the hall/kitchen with a gable-end stack, the centre bay is partitioned axially and unheated and the left [west] bay is a byre open to the roof, but might have had a loft originally.

EXTERIOR: two storeys. South front has doorways to left and right of centre. At rear, north, a later open lean-to.

INTERIOR: right-hand room has chamfered axial beam with hollow-step stops and exposed joists and large fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer, timber jambs and later brick oven. Partition wall has stencilled mural with leaf and flower pattern. Centre bay is partitioned axially creating small back room and has chamfered axial beam and exposed joists. Jowled storey posts carrying collar-and-tie-beam closed trusses; trenched purlins and diagonally-set trenched ridge piece; common rafters missing.

Listing NGR: SJ3779009268

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558699

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)