Description

THORNHAM MAGNA MAJOR LANE (WEST SIDE)
TM 17 SW
3/77 Park Villa
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- II

House, now 2 dwellings. c.1600, altered and part rebuilt in C19. Timber
frame, plastered. Steeply pitched plaintiled roof. 3 cell cross passage
plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor: entrance to left of centre with a recessed 6
panelled door with a hoodmould, 3-light transomed part opening casements with
hoodboards, first floor 2 and 3-light leaded casements with hoodmoulds. Axial
ridge stack with rebuilt capping to right of centre between hall and parlour,
break in plinth to rebuilt parlour. Left or service end added external stack
with offsets, exposed plates and slightly jettied gable. Right end exposed
C19 plates and purlins. Interior: close studding, stop chamfered cross axial
binding beams, stop chamfered storey posts in hall with roll moulds below
jowls, butt purlin roof with reverse cranked windbraces, cambered collars. To
rear right a C20 link attaches to a C19 outbuilding with a hipped pantiled
roof.

Listing NGR: TM1068272236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284596

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