Description

PIRTON GREAT GREEN
TL 1431 (West side)

7/153 No. 16
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GV II

House. C16 or earlier open hall house. Floor inserted and timber framed
chimney early C17, brick chimney early C18, bread oven in outshut to
rear wing C18 or early C19. Timber frame on red brick sill, roughcast
externally with steep old red tile roof with slated continuation over
rear outshut. Dark weatherboarding to NW outhouse with thatched roof
sheeted over. A 2-storeys, 3 cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan
house facing E with short rear wing with stair and kitchen running W
from rear of chimney a third from N end. E front has 3 windows, 3 gabled
dormers at the eaves, and gabled porch in line with the chimney. Flush
casement windows. Interior has exposed frame, some wattle-and-daub
panels, jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, curved tension braces,
edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in wallplate, brick chimney
built enclosing the tie-beam of a truss, and clasped-purlin truss.
Several moulded plank doors.

Listing NGR: TL1445531592

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397251

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