Little Orchard
LITTLE ORCHARD, SHORT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284295
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Orchard
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE ORCHARD, SHORT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284295
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Orchard
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE ORCHARD, SHORT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE ORCHARD, SHORT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barford St. Martin
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05481 31576
Details
SU 03 SE BARFORD ST MARTIN SHORT LANE (west side)
2/19 Little Orchard
GV II*
Detached cottage. C15, altered C17 and C18. Dressed limestone with some timber-framing retained to rear, thatched roof with brick stacks. Four-bay former hall house with 1-bay solar at west end, gable end to road. Single-storey and attic, 4 windows. Planked door in lean-to tiled porch, single-light and 2-light casement to right with small leaded fire window and three 2-light casements to left. Attic has three 2-light casements and one 3-light casement to eyebrow dormers. Right return has 2-light casement to first floor; evidence of former roofline and raised eaves to rear. Left return has exposed cruck with collar, lean-to extension with slate roof. Two-storey rear has planked door in gabled porch with 2-light casement, latticed leaded casement and blocked doorway to right, 2-light casement to left; two right hand bays are timber- framed with brick nogging and single and 2-light casements, first floor has leaded casements. Interior: ground floor has deep chamfered beams and exposed joists to C17 inserted ceiling across the hall, centre room has beam with moulded soffit, possibly late C16, some wainscot panelling. Kitchen at east end has open fireplace with chamfered lintel on stone jambs, a C17 insertion. Four-bay raised cruck construction visible in attic and roof; three east bays formerly open to roof with smoke-blackened timbers and open trusses. Open truss to east has truncated raised cruck with small cruck truss carried above, middle open cruck truss has arch-braced cranked collar with chamfered soffits and was formerly over the hall, closed cruck truss to west has cranked collar and ridge carried on saddle, solar formerly in bay to west of this truss, curved windbraces to all bays. An important surviving cruck-built hall house, originally timber-framed and subsequently remodelled in late C16 and C17. One of several in the area; see also Juniper Cottage, Burcombe Without (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SU0548131576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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