Delamore Orchardleigh

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ASHPRINGTON SX85NW Delamore and 6/26 Orchardleigh

GV II

House divided into 2 cottages. Circa late C17, divided into 2 cottages probably in early C19. Local stone rubble, rear wing rendered. Grouted scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Delamore to right has roof reclad in asbestos slates. Rendered stack at right hand gable end and a rendered axial stack near left hand gable end. Rendered projecting stack of gable end of rear wing. Plan: Probably originally one house. The main range of 2 principal rooms with a central through passage, the right had room heated from an axial stack to the left and a small unheated room at the left end. Behind the left hand principal room a coeval wing of on large room probably the kitchen with a gable end fireplace. In the C19 the house was divided into 2 cottages, the partition on the right hand side of the passage was removed, the passage rear doorway blocked and a small entrance lobby created at the front of the passage. Another doorway was inserted in front of the left hand stack creating an entrance lobby for the left hand cottage. Behind the right hand cottage there is an attached farm building which has been converted in the late C20 to extend the living accommodation. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range of 2 and 3-light casements, those to the right (Orchardleigh) are circa late Cl9 or C20 2-light casements, those to the left (Delamore) are late C20 2-light casements with small panes on the ground floor and circa early C19 3-light casements on the first floor with diamond-shaped leaded panes. One small single light window at the centre of the ground floor. The original doorway (to Orchardleigh) to the right of centre has a C20 glazed and panelled door with an earlier canopy on shaped brackets. The doorway towards the left hand end is probably a Cl9 insertion and has a wooden lattice porch and a C20 panelled door. C19 and C20 casements at the rear and circa late C19 plank door into a rear wing. Interior: The right hand room of the main range (Orchardleigh) has chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops, a blocked fireplace and the partition on the right hand side of the passage has been removed. Delamore to the left has cross-beams with run out stops in its larger room in the front range and similar beams in the rear wing; its small unheated room to the left has 2 moulded(ovolo and hollow with convex stops) joists reused as posts to support a beam. Roof: Elm trusses with cambered collars lapped and pegged to the faces of the principals which have mortice and tenoned apexes. The right hand gable may have been raised which would suggest that the existing circa late C17 roof is not the original.

Listing NGR: SX8182256945

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