86 Newton

Description

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

ST 7813 STURMINSTER NEWTON NEWTON (NORTH SIDE)

9/85 NO 86

G.V. II

House, possibly C15 with a number of later additions and alterations. Brick (Flemish bond), rubble and timber framed walls, thatched roof with gable ends.

Brick stacks one third in from each end. Single storey with attic, 4 window- range. All ground floor openings under wooden lintels. 2, 3 and 4-light C20 wooden casements throughout. Left gable has an exposed jointed cruck truss. Internally the plan is of 3 rooms with a cross passage. Smoke blackened timbers have been found in the roof and the building probably originated as an open hall. Internal: jointed cruck truss in attic, 2 chamfered square-headed timber doorways with shouldered jambs in cross passage, deep stopped chamfered beams and wall plates.

"RCHM, Dorset Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 284, no 55.

Listing NGR: ST7816713434

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1811 IOE Records taken by Barry Senior; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Barry Senior. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project