Type of building:
Mid mixed terrace
Listing:
Grade ll
Plan and elevation:
Single pile, single unit (two rooms), single entry. Two-storey and attic dormer.
The building occupies a wedge shaped site.
Summary of the probable main building
history:
Late 17th – early 18th Century
East elevation. Note blocked first floor loading door
Exterior:
Contemporary with its neighbour to the south although dissimilar in size and layout.
Coursed rubble construction. The ground floor has two 2 - light wood casement
windows (some evidence that one light was fixed and the other probably an opening
iron casement), both with mullions and dressed stone surrounds of chamfer - ogee
section. Substantial straight drip moulds over. Two first floor windows to match
but without mouldings above. Modern 4 - light casement window in the attic dormer.
The entry is centralised, contains a modern door, has a timber lintel over and
no dressings. There is a blocked loading door with a timber lintel between the
first floor windows. The mansard (gabled gambrel) roof is tiled with a coped raised
verge and an ashlar chimney stack on the south gable end.
Interior:
Entry is direct from the outside into the main ground floor room where there is
a modern corner newel staircase. A substantial un-sawn timber beam spans the ceiling.
There is a south gable end stone fireplace , depressed four-centred arched and
chamfered. The mullioned window openings are splayed with timber lintels over
them and window seats below. The first floor fireplace is sealed. There is a possible
sealed door opening to the neighbouring property in the left fireplace alcove.
Another un-sawn timber beam spans the ceiling of the first floor room. The roof
collars are exposed on the ceiling of the attic room although these are possibly
later insertions to support the roof – the mansard probably being a later
18th Century addition to the building. Other roof timbers are purlins and un-sawn
rafters with a diagonal ridge piece and plated yokes.
Date & development:
The plan and the mullion windows with straight drip moulds indicate a late 17th
Century or early 18th Century building with the later addition of a mansard roof.
Probably built as a residence, the loading door (now sealed) would point to a
commercial usage of the property at some stage - local knowledge suggests stables
which seems tenable in what was a commercial area in the in the early 19th Century.
However, such usage would appear to have been short lived; the Tithe Apportionment
Schedule of 1840 describes the property as a house.
References:
- The Batheaston Tithe Map and Apportionment Schedule 1840, Somerset Record Office
Survey Drawings
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