Butcher'S Shop And House Adjoining

SP16NE 1457-1/2/39 18/03/97

CLAVERDON LYE GREEN ROAD East side) Butcher's Shop and house adjoining

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Also known as: Burman's Butcher's Shop THE GREEN. House with meat store and shop. Probably C17, with C19 range to rear and C20 range to front. Timber-framed with painted brick facades and renewed tile roof. PLAN: 3-unit plan of which the left unit, ground floor is a meat store, with extension to front at right forming L-plan, with outshuts to one side and to rear at left gable (this under a catslide roof). Further range to rear and shop to front at right. EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys, two upper-stage windows. Off-centre entrance, C20 glazed doors in porch; C20 windows throughout, to right of door a 3-light casement under elliptical arch, bay to front projecting gable; first floor has full dormer with casement window and 2-light casement to projecting gable. Gabled roofs. Cluster of 3 off-centre right ridge stacks and front internal stack, truncated external stack to left. To projecting gable end are exposed narrow collar and tie-beams, original wall plates and one tier of purlins project. Rear wall has evidence of small panels of square timber-framing. Left gable end wall has exposed original purlins and ridge purlin; timbers to outshut. INTERIOR: all interior timbers are roughly-hewn; ground floor has chamfered tie-beam to centre room and remains of inglenook fireplace. To right room a chamfered spine beam with chamfered end stop to right, part of wall-plate exposed. Meat store to left: the rear wall has extensive evidence of small panels of square framing; chamfered tie-beam; remains of inglenook with bressumer beam to gable end wall, now containing bacon salting troughs. First floor: left gable end has exposed principal rafters and tie-and-collar-beam truss with angle struts, the position of these indicates that the roof has been heightened; left room has exposed purlins and wall-plate. Similar exposed roof truss to partition wall.

Listing NGR: SP1960365111