Thatched Cottage
THATCHED COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389738
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389738
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nursling and Rownhams
- National Grid Reference:
- SU3599116469
Details
1965/0/10020
08-APR-02
NURSLING AND ROWNHAMS
CHURCH LANE
Nursling
Thatched Cottage
GV
II
House. Circa early C15; remodelled circa C17 and C18; extended C19. Timber-framed with brick nogging; front and west end walls rebuilt in red brick circa C18. Thatched roof with hipped and half-hipped ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs.
PLAN: 3-bay house with 2-bay open hall to right [E]. Floor inserted into open hall in about C17 and stack built at right end of hall forming lobby entrance. Front [S] and left [W] end walls rebuilt in brick in C18. Small 1-bay addition built at right end in C19.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window south front with two 3-light casements with glazing bars and segmental brick arches on ground floor to left and smaller 2-light casements above with eyebrow eaves over; doorway to right of centre; weatherboarded to right. Timber-framing exposed at rear [N]; various casement windows with glazing bars, glazed garden door on right and plank door on left.
INTERIOR: Exposed timber-frame. Attic chambers ceiled, but tie-beam, curved wind-braces and arch-braced collar truss exposed. 3-bay frame with collar and tie-beam end trusses and similar originally open-truss between hall and storeyed west bay; the hall with an arch-braced collar truss; clasped-purlins, diagonal ridgepiece set on diagonally trenched yokes and clasped at apex of the principals; common-rafter couples and thatching battens intact; all heavily smoke-blackened from an open-hearth fire; underside of the thatch appears to be clean.
The Thatched Cottage is a good example of a small Medieval 3-bay timber-framed house with a 2-bay open hall.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488689
- 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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