18, MARKET STREET

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HATHERLEIGH MARKET STREET SS 5404 11/68 No. 18 (formerly listed as 'The White Hart') 22.2.67 II* GV

House. Circa 1500 with early C16 and early C17 alterations and C17 additions. Rendered rubble and cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Projecting coursed rubble lateral stack at front incorporating some large squared stones which has tall shaft with dripcourse and tapering cap. Brick axial stack. Plan: 2-room-and-through-passage plan. Hall to left and lower room to right. Originally built with open hall which had central hearth. The lower room was probably also open to the roof but lacks direct evidence of this since its roof has been replaced. In the first half of the C16 a chamber was built above the passage which was jettied out into the hall. In the later C16 or early C17 the hall stack was added on its front wall and a ceiling inserted - possibly in consecutive stages. The date that the lower room was floored over and its stack inserted backing onto the passage is more uncertain but likely to have been completed by the mid C17. Also in the C17 2 rear wings were added. That behind the hall incorporates a winder staircse which opens out beyond it. The wing behind the lower room was probably completely of non-domestsic use although the part nearest the house has been converted and is now reached from the lower room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of uniform late C20 leaded pane 3- light casements apart from a 2-light one to the---right on the first floor. The windows on the left-hand side of the house are in a 2-storey bay and the central first floor window, above the doorway is an oriel, probably reconstructed. To the right the ground floor window is also a bay with a carved C17 timber bracket below. Central wide 4-panelled door of uncertain date but probably constructed from old timber. Rear elevation has 2 long wings projecting from either side, slate roofed. Between them is original medieval roundheaded doorframe and above it is a C17 3-light chamfered wooden mullion window. Good interior: between the passage and the hall is a plank and muntin screen which is either original or contemporary with the internal jetty. Its muntins are chamfered and scratch-moulded on the passage side, with mason's mitres and an ovolo- moulded headbeam. A square doorframe has been inserted into what, judging by the mouldings to the original jambs, was originally an arched doorway. 2 small windows have been cut into the screen towards the front in the form of 2-light traceried windows. On the hall side the muntins are simply chamfered. Running above the screen into the hall approximately one foor are the internal jetty joists which are chamfered with curved ends - some cut off. The hall ceilign consists of 3 cross beams - the 2 outer ones are half beams - which are chamfered with straight-cut stops. Open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which has a small squint with arched head in its rear right-hand corner. At the rear of the hall is a C17 chamfered doorframe to the rear wing. Adjoining it is a contemporary winder staircase which has a newel post with acorn finial. Roof structure consists of complete smoke-blackened medieval roof over hall and passage with pair of raised curcks which have a cranked morticed collar, threaded purlins and a diagonal trenched ridge. The original common rafters, battens and thatch also survive. The higher end wall is also smoke-blackened, that at the lower end is not and was probably inserted. The jetty partition was inserted under the truss up to its collar and is also smoke-blackened, more lightly at the passage side. The roof over the lower end has a clean truss with crossed apex - probably late C18 or C19. The barn behind the left-hand end has a later C17 truss consisting of straight principals with halved collar. This is a very complete example of a developed multi-phase medieval town house preserving many interesting features.

Listing NGR: SS5418404534

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