Edgton

EDGTON C.P. EDGTON SO 38 NE 1/136 Nos. 5 and 6 - - II

House, latterly divided into public house and shop, now 2 dwellings. Mid-C17,eaves raised late C18 or C19 with later additions and alterations. Roughcast and rendered timber frame, rubblestone and red brick; slate roof. 2 storeys. C19 and C20 casements, 5 to each floor, those to first floor directly below eaves. Boarded doors to far left and under concrete block porch to right; 4-panel door to left of centre with flat bracketed hood. Framing: fragmentarily exposed to right gable end with original principal rafter visible beneath raising of eaves. External red brick end stack to right and ridge stack to left. Back wall has large integral rubblestone stack with red brick shaft. Late C19 two-storey red brick addition at right-angles to rear on right and single-storey C19 red brick addition to rear on left. Interior: timber frame partly exposed throughout to No. 5 including to cross walls (square panels) with vertical posts to raising of eaves. Main ground-floor room has 2 deep-chamfered spine beams with stepped triangular stops; similar beam to right room. Stone corner fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel and C19 cast-iron cooking range to main room with similar fireplace to same stack in left room. Stone-flag floors throughout. Collar and tie beam roof in 3 bays (formerly double-purlin) with trusses exposed has short straight braces from wall-plate and tie beams to wall posts. Continues to No. 6 (not inspected) probably making 6 bays in all. Wide boarded oak Floor boards to first floor. Timber frame also said to be substantially intact under plaster to No. 6.

Listing NGR: SO3877385829