Description

THORNBURY
SS 30 NE

5/61 Little Lopthorne
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- II

House formerly farmhouse. Circa mid - later C17 with C20 additions and
alterations. Rendered cob and stone rubble walls. Thatch roof gabled to left end
and hipped to right, tile the roof to rear addition. 2 rendered brick stacks - one
axial and one at gable-end.
Plan: 2-room plan with larger room to right, may formerly have had a central
through-passage. Both rooms heated but left-hand stack may be later. 2 circa mid
C20 additions made at right-hand end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front, lower older part to left is 3
windows wide with C20 3-light casements. Central C20 gabled porch with plank door.
The taller C20 addition has 2-light casements and a glazed door to left. 2 single
light casements where the 2 parts of the house meet.
Interior: fireplace in right-hand room has chamfered and hollow step-stopped wooden
lintel. Closely spaced insubstantial ceiling beams roughly chamfered with run-out
stops.

Listing NGR: SS3981407852

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612060

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