GREYSTONES

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

DODDISCOMBSLEIGH SX 88 NW 2/116 Greystones 11.11.52 II House. C17 or earlier, C20 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob and atone ; thatched roof, half-hipped at left end, hipped at right end ; axial stack with brick shaft, left end stack with truncated shaft.

Plan: Single depth 3 room plan with a 2-storey porch to right of centre leading directly into the right hand room. The original plan has been obscured by C20 alterations but may have been a 3 room and through pasage arrangement, hall stack backing on to passage, although the putative lower end (to the right) is unusually short.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3+1+1 window front with a gabled porch to right of centre formed by a first floor projecting room on granite posts. Fenestration of 2- light casements, glazed with C20 square leaded panes, except one 1-light window ground floor right.

Interior: Open fireplace to centre room with a chamfered timber lintel and brick- lined bread oven ; exposed joists probably C18 or C19. C17 panelling has been introduced into the room. The left hand room has a roughly-chamfered crossbeam and has been divided into 2.

Roof: Apex not inspected at time of survey (1987) but principal rafters visible upstairs are straight.

Listing NGR: SX8489986886

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1171 IOE Records taken by Ernie W King; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Ernie W. King. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project