Description

1965/0/10020
08-APR-02

NURSLING AND ROWNHAMS
CHURCH LANE
Nursling
Thatched Cottage

GV
II

House. Circa early C15; remodelled circa C17 and C18; extended C19. Timber-framed with brick nogging; front and west end walls rebuilt in red brick circa C18. Thatched roof with hipped and half-hipped ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs.
PLAN: 3-bay house with 2-bay open hall to right [E]. Floor inserted into open hall in about C17 and stack built at right end of hall forming lobby entrance. Front [S] and left [W] end walls rebuilt in brick in C18. Small 1-bay addition built at right end in C19.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window south front with two 3-light casements with glazing bars and segmental brick arches on ground floor to left and smaller 2-light casements above with eyebrow eaves over; doorway to right of centre; weatherboarded to right. Timber-framing exposed at rear [N]; various casement windows with glazing bars, glazed garden door on right and plank door on left.
INTERIOR: Exposed timber-frame. Attic chambers ceiled, but tie-beam, curved wind-braces and arch-braced collar truss exposed. 3-bay frame with collar and tie-beam end trusses and similar originally open-truss between hall and storeyed west bay; the hall with an arch-braced collar truss; clasped-purlins, diagonal ridgepiece set on diagonally trenched yokes and clasped at apex of the principals; common-rafter couples and thatching battens intact; all heavily smoke-blackened from an open-hearth fire; underside of the thatch appears to be clean.
The Thatched Cottage is a good example of a small Medieval 3-bay timber-framed house with a 2-bay open hall.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669168

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)