Description

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST

5/6 Clayway
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- II

Former farmhouse. Circa 1500 or earlier with later alterations and a C20 left-hand
extension. Cob, stone plinth, rendered under gabled-end thatched roof. Originally
a 3-room cross-passage plan, the former passage entrance now blocked. One C20 end
stack, and an axial brick stack backing onto former passage. 2 storeys.
Front: Scattered fenestration. Left-hand porch with slate roof together with the
first left-hand ground and 1st floor windows belong to the C20 extension. Of the
remainder: four 2-light windows to 1st floor; all timber casements C20. 5 raking
buttressts on front wall.
Rear: to the old part, 3 single-light windows including a small stair window.
Interior: Hall with beam, chamfered with hollow step stops; fireplace with stone
jamb and timber chamfered lintel with run-out stops. Lower-end room with roughly-
hewn beam, unchamfered.
Roof: 2 principals above upper end, tie beam, collar, trenched purlins; morticed
and side-pegged at apex; smoke-blackened throughout. (Partially inspected).

Listing NGR: SX9932199105

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618359

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)