Thornbury And Little Thornbury

Description

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

SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (north side), Lympstone

5/58 Thornbury and Little Thornbury - GV II

2 dwellings. Late C16, remodelled in the mid C19. Random rubble to the front, cob to the rear, all roughcast. Gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, through- passage, plan house, the service end probably to the left of the passage, with a later range added to the rear making it overall a double-depth plan. 2 end stacks, that to the right now engulfed in a neighbouring house; some evidence of an original axial stack backing on to passage. 2 storeys.

Front: 5-window range; 3 tripartite 4:12:4 pane, and two 12-pane, hornless sash windows to first floor; 2 entrances; that to the left possibly to former passage, with a wide doorway, panelled door, and open porch; another doorway to Little Thornbury. Tripartite French windows to left; 8:16:8 pane hornless sash canted bay window between doorways; tripartite sash window (as first floor) to extreme right.

Rear: five 12-pane hornless sash windows to first floor, 3 below.; otherwise C20 fenestration.

Interior: end fireplace to Thornbury with side oven; otherwise mid-C19 joinery.

Roof: 6 jointed crucks, conventionally morticed and pegged apex carpentry, diagonal ridge-piece, trenched purlins, all clean.

Listing NGR: SX9902184162

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1508 IOE Records taken by Tony Ovens; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Tony Ovens. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project