Description

CHARSFIELD THE STREET
TL 96 SW
5/12 The Thatch
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GV II

House. C16 or C17. Timber framed with colourwashed render and thatched
roof. Two storeys. Road front: doorway at right of centre with a C20
plank door. Gabled C20 porch in front with a cement plinth. To right is a
3-light ground floor window and to left are two further 3-light C19
casements. To the first floor are two 3-light and one 2-light casements.
To the ridge at left of centre is a single-flue stack of C20 brick and the
thatched roof has a decorative ridge of sedge which slopes up at either
end. Slightly recessed at right is a C20 single-storey addition. Similar
addition at left. Left hand gable end: 2-light casement to right of the
addition. Two-light first window and 2-light attic casement. Rear: lean-
to at ground floor left with a 4-light casement and to right of this French
windows and at far right a 3-light and a single-light casement. To the
first floor at right is a 3-light casement and at left two 2-light gabled
dormers.
Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to ground floor with stepped lamb's
tongue stops and plain joists. One further room with joists. Massive
chimney stack with bressumer beams.

Listing NGR: TM2600656230

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657843

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey