Description

GITTISHAM GITTISHAM (north side)
SY 19 NW

7/165 Curlditch including walls of walled
garden to the east
22.2.55

GV II

House. Late medieval origin; substantially remodelled circa late C17/early C18. C20
alterations. Cream washed and rendered, probably cob and stone; thatched roof with a
plain ridge hipped at left end of main range,gabled at ends of wing; end stacks,
shaft of left end stack dismantled, a rear projection may be the remains of a rear
lateral stack, axial stack and end stack to wing.
Plan: Overall U plan, a single depth main range, facing south with a right (east)
crosswing and a range adjoining at right angles to the rear left (north) west. The
main range is single depth, 3 rooms wide, with an entrance to left of centre into a
wide passage containing the stair; an axial passage runs behind the centre room
giving access to the right (east) end room which is within the crosswing with a stair
projection at the right end. The north end of the wing has a late medieval core with
a smoke-blackened roof: it seems likey that this was the service wing of the medieval
house with an open hearth kitchen, the main range having been thoroughly rebuilt in
the late C17/early C18 but still retaining evidence of a former 3 room and through
passage plan, lower end to the left, the hall in the centre, now divided from the
lateral stack by an introduced axial passage.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front, the wing projecting to the front
at the right and gable ended; gabled porch to left of centre with a good C17 moulded
doorframe and a plank and stud front door. Set of C20 timber casements with glazing
bars, the 2 windows in the gable end of the wing were mullioned. The hoodmoulds
survive. The east return (the wing) has a mixture of C20 and C18 casements. The C18
first floor casements with square leaded panes. Stone rubble walls with tiled
capping to the walled garden to the east are included in the listing.
Interior: Plain chamfered crossbeams survive in the main range. The rear wing has
chamfered crossbeams with bar stops.
Roof: Side-pegged jointed cruck trusses over the rear right wing, smoke-blackened
including purlins, rafters and thatch at the north end, as far as a closed partition.
The remaining trusses in the wing are not sooted. Trusses in the main range 'A'
frames of a late C17/early C18 character.
A large, handsome traditional house of medieval origins, forming part of a good group
with Crabbs Cottage and Riverside Cottage to the west.
Photograph in NMR.

Listing NGR: SY1350598293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618507

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (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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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)