Description

SS53SE GOODLEIGH GOODLEIGH

7/84 The Old Shop

25.2.65

GV II

House. C16 and possibly earlier origins. Roughcast rendered rubble and some cob. Slate roof with gable end to right. Probably 3-cell through-passage plan originally, the room to left of through-passage later forming part of shop with lower end of Hakeford cottage (q.v.). Large lateral front hall stack with batter and offsets, shaft heightened in brick. 2-storeys 3-window range of C19 2-light casements 8-panes each light. Corrugated asbestos pentice to left side of stack and breaking forward over bread oven projection covers a 2-light casement 8-panes per light to left of C16 4-centred arched chamfered doorframe with C20 plank door. 2-light hall window 8-panes per light with 4-paned sidelights. 2-light casement to right also 8-panes per light. Lean-to garage at right end with corrugated iron roof, covering blocked raised doorway to gable end. C20 extension to rear with lean-to corrugated asbestos roof. The feet of a pair of sawn off raised cruck blades survive, rest of roof timbers are C20. C17 doorframe with chamfered surround with run-out stops to head of stairs. Plank and muntin screen to through-passage, 3 planks wide to right and single plank wide to left of 4-centred arched doorway. Stairs inserted at left end have slightly reduced the length of the screen at this end. A further screen formerly divided hall and inner room, but only the headrail and shoulder-headed doorframe are in situ: the planks, one of which has the incised figure of St Dorothy carved on it, have been reinstated into their original positions, the headrail and shoulder - headed doorframe remaining in situ.

Listing NGR: SS5991134116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610851

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Care and Repair