Description

ALDBOURNE WEST STREET (north side)
SU 27 NE 9/93
The Priest's House

II

House, C15 and C16 with C20 additions. Brick and sarsen, probably replacing timber framing. 1 storey and attic, 3 bays with right outbuilding, now kitchen and c1950 front extension. Original structure probably with central open hall and services in narrower
bay to right beyond cross passage. Left bay rebuilt about C16-C17 approximately one third narrower. Timber casement windows and metal windows and angled door in front extension with flat roof. Thatch reduced in height over right outbuilding. Interior structure with cruck truss left of cross passage, with saddle apex built up to ridge, and rear cruck descending to ground. Tie removed to insert stack, in later C16-C17, stone with 60mm bricks to flue and simple chamfered firebeam. Later over inserted from rear. Wattle and daub wall right of crosspassage removed below tie, which has soffite mortices for central door. Purlins trenched without visible windbraces. Inserted in former hall is a fine moulded ceiling with double moulded chamfered to spine beam and joists. A building here is recorded in 1520, as a house belonging to the priest. The vicarage formerly stood on an adjoining plot.

Listing NGR: SU2626475763

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647144

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