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STOKE ST GREGORY CP
STOKE ST GREGORY VILLAGE
Jessamine House and Long Cottage

(Formerly listed as Jessamine House and house adjoining to east)


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Cottage with farmbuildings, now two dwellings. Late medieval, ceiled C16, farmbuilding possibly C18, altered extended and roof raised C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, east gable end said to have been rebuilt in brick, farmbuilding said to be roughcast over brick with upper courses of rubble, (generally the reverse), double Roman tiled roof extended as
catslide over porch, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks gable ends of both ranges and brick stack to left of entrance.

L-plan: open hall house ceiled to three-cell and cross passage, lean-to west gable end, farmbuilding abutting north-west porch in angle. One and a half storeys, three- and two-light dormers rising below eaves left of entrance, ground floor two three-light casements left, C20 porch with catslide roof and C20 door, to right former farmbuilding lit only by small semi-circular headed window ground floor right, single storey lean-to addition north gable end. South front of Jessamine House much altered in C20.

Interior not seen, said to contain two pairs of smoke blackened jointed cruck trusses forming central bay of house, moulded Ham stone lintel to cross passage fireplace, gable end grates later insertions.

The proximity of the dwelling to the Church of St Gregory (qv) and its antiquity suggests that it may have been the Priest's house, or the poor house. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1982).

Listing NGR: ST3477927143

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)