Brookside Including Garden Wall To Rear

Description

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

SS 90 SW THORVERTON SILVER STREET, Thorverton 8/153 Brookside, No 5 including garden - wall to the rear GV II House. C18 or earlier, refurbished in the circa early C19. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone ; slate roof, hipped at ends ; axial stack'with brick shaft, rear right lateral stack.

Plan Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide with entrance to right of centre into a stair hall, heated principal rooms on either side and an extra room at the left end which has a separate entrance on the front and was formerly heated from the axial stack.

Exterior 2 storeys. 1:3 window front, symmetrical at the right end with steps up to a recessed panelled front door with panelled reveals and soffit and a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. The doorway has pilasters with recessed panelling and a cornice and is flanked by circa early C19 16-pane sashes, 3 first floor 4 over 8 pane sashes above. To the left there is a further door into the left end service room, half-glazed with a flat porch canopy carried on moulded brackets, 4 over 8 pane sash sashes above. There is a curious arched recess with a sill on the left return.

Interior Joinery of both the C18 and C19 the former including cupboard doors and 2- panel first floor door, the latter a stick baluster stair with a ramped handrail.

Probably C19 pump in working order in service room.

Roof Tie beam design with a timber wall plate and sawn timbers, some of the main trusses with secondary collars, probably early C19, but with evidence of a change in roof pitch at the front. A curved cob and stone wall to the rear garden is included in the listing.

Group value with other detached houses in Silver Street.

Listing NGR: SS9267202070

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1156 IOE Records taken by Robert W Keniston; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Robert W Keniston. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project