Description

WESTON-ON-AVON

SP1551 Low Thatch
1931-1/8/177
02/08/72

GV II

House. Dated to C15 with C16 addition to left; later
alterations. Brick with some internal timber-frame; thatched
roof with 2 brick stacks to rear of ridge. 3-unit plan
altogether.
EXTERIOR: single-storey plus attic; 2- plus 3-window range.
Part to left has entrance to right end with split door to
pegged frame and hipped thatch canopy; 2 windows to left have
small-paned casements with iron opening lights, eyebrow dormer
with similar 4-light casement. Part to right: entrance to left
end has split door in pegged frame; 3 windows, the central one
with 2-light C20 small-paned casement with 3-light casement to
left and 2-light casement to right, both with iron opening
casements. Eyebrow dormer has tile sill and small-paned
casement.
Right return has segmental-headed window to each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but recorded as having timber-frame
and cob inner walls, exposed beams, substantial remains of
cruck truss and 2 fireplaces with bressumers; some old doors
with strap hinges.
(Surrey Leverhulme Trust Cruck Dating Project).

Listing NGR: SP1572551941

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662882

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)