Moseley Bank

WHITBOURNE SO 75 NW 10/10000 MOSELEY BANK II

House. Circa late C17, extended in circa C18 and C19. Timber framed with painted brick panels. Plain tile roof with gabled and hipped ends. Brick end stacks. Plan: 3-room plan with outshut at rear. The end rooms have gable end stacks, and there is a cross-passage between the centre unheated room and right hand room, the original kitchen; the passage partition appears to be a late insertion and the left hand room is a parlour added in circa C18. The outshut is a C19 enlargement of an earlier outshut. Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3 window south front C20 3-light casements with leaded panes, the attic windows in 3 gabled half dormers through eaves. Doorways to left and right of centre with C20 open timber gabled porches, that on right with C20 glazed door. At rear the main roof is carried down as catslide over outshut with brick lateral stack on right. Interior: Right hand room has chamfered axial beam with cyma stop at inner end (now a passage). Large fireplace with timber lintel covered over, bread oven with iron door and niche said to be for drying grain. Centre room has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, unchamfered joists and C20 stairs. Left hand room has 2 thin chamfered cross-beams, large corner cupboard with fielded panel doors and simple wooden chimneypiece with bead moulded arris. In the attic chambers the tie-beam and queen post trusses are exposed and are set on unjowled storey posts. Internally and externally the boxframing is exposed and has regular square panels and some tension braces.

Listing NGR: SO7226857302