Description

ST 72 NE GILLINGHAM MILTON ON STOUR

2/231 The Old House

- II

House. C17 for Dyrdo family; altered and added to mid C19. Coursed squared stone to main elevations, and rubblestone. Plain tile roofs to main elevations, and Welsh slate. L-shaped plan: 2 storeys and attic; C17 house on east-west axis of 2 bays with lateral entry and 2-storey rear outshut; C19 entrance range added to rear right, when C17 range was refronted, and C19 additions in line to west. East (entrance) front: 3 bays, left 2 narrower and under gable. Plinth, quoins. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels and overlight with glazing bars in architrave protected by deep porch with cusped fluting to columns, panelled frieze, cornice and blocking course. Windows are double-chamfered, mullioned and transomed, with margin glazing bars and hoodmoulds; of 3 lights flanking door on ground and 1st floors, of 2 lights over door and centrally to gable. Block kneelers, ashlar coping. Steeply pitched roof with shouldered and corniced end stacks to gable and to right end. South (garden) front: right-hand block projects and has plinth; quoins; central C20 board door in cusped-panelled architrave under corbelled pediment with Sun insurance plaque flanked by 3-light windows on each floor as south front; stacks to ends and centre; left return largely masked by addition, but on right a blocked, quoined, C17 doorway with shallow segmental-arched monolithic lintel and on 1st floor one light of a double-chamfered window with hoodmould. On left, C19 additions stepping down have small-pane windows, those of right-hand addition transomed, those of left-hand addition segmental-arched and flanking central door. Further left, C19 outbuilding not of special interest. North front: strap-hinged board door with overlight on right of outshut which has double-chamfered windows with ribbed mullions of 2 and 3 lights to ground floor and two of 2 lights above; C20 dormer to east-west range; north-south range has a 2-light window with hoodmould to ground and attic floors (the former blocked). Interior: C17 range: left-hand ground-floor room has possibly re-used features including panelled wainscot, panelled door on left of fireplace which has roll- moulded, shallow-Tudor-arched stone surround, deep frieze with griffins flanking shield and modillion cornice with acanthus-leaf motif; compartmented ceiling with moulded beams. In attic, collared principal rafter roof trusses with 2 sets of trenched purlins, the morticed collar at left end probably re-used.

Listing NGR: ST7963828185

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)