Description

SP04NE
115/2/10001
10-NOV-00

NORTH AND MIDDLE LITTLETON
EAST SIDE
North Littleton
Hemborne

GV
II

House. Circa C16; extended and remodelled in C17 and C18. Stone rubble, front wall rebuilt in brick [whitewashed] in about early C19; gable of rear wing is timber-framed. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks.
PLAN: 2-room plan; the right-hand [N] room [the hall] heated from an axial fireplace backing onto a cross-passage on its right [N], and with a large, originally unheated, room on the left [S] now with a corner fireplace. Behind the left end there is a short 1-room plan wing probably added in the C17, and behind the hall an outshut was added probably in the C18.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window east front with C19 2 and 3-light windows with iron casements with glazing bars, ground floor left and first floor right replaced; doorway on right has late C20 porch. At rear [W] a short wing on right with timber-framed gable with brick nogging; main roof on left carried down to low eaves of outshut with two gabled dormers.
INTERIOR: Right-hand [N] room has large stone fireplace with stop-chamfered timber bressumer and brick oven; stop-chamfered joists and deeply chamfered axial beam with cyma stops supported at one end by chimneystack , the other end supported on the corbelled head of a post in the central partition with heavy scantling framing. Left [S] room has similar axial beam also supported on corbel on partition post and with stop-chamfered joists and corner fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Room in rear wing has large roughly-hewn closely-spaced joists. Roof structure appears to have been reconstructed from old materials, the central truss has struts to the principals, on which are set large purlins, those in south bay with redundant mortices; diagonal ridgepiece and common-rafters intact.

Listing NGR: SP0842847372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558735

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)