Atkinson House

SP 0738 CHILDSWICKHAM CP ATKINSON STREET (north side) 7/153 Atkinson House 30.7.59 GV II* House. C14 with C16 and C19 alterations. Restored late 1960s. Timber- framing on stone base with stone slate roof. At the left is a jettied cross-wing, with framing of heavy scantling, in roughly square panels on the ground floor and with more closely spaced studs on the first floor. The gable wall has two curved tension braces on the ground floor, and a restored window with timber mullions on each floor. Above the first floor window is a slated weathering added in the C20. The truss has a king strut between tie-beam and collar, and two raking struts. Attached to C20 bargeboards are worn medieval scalloped bargeboards. The left-hand (west) wall of the wing has three curved braces on the ground floor, a restored timber mullioned window on each floor and a C20 metal casement window at the left on the ground floor. The right-hand return wall of the wing has two small trefoiled lights cut into a first floor stud. The main part of the house, on the site of the hall and incorporating some of its remains, has two casement windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. Between the ground floor windows is a blocked doorway. The right-hand part of the wall, and the right-hand gable, are of stone. Chimney at right has brick cap. Exposed in this gable wall is a cruck blade re-used as a tie-beam. Interior: cross- wing, originally solar, has wide ceiling joists laid flat, and a C17 stair with large moulded handrail and splat balusters. On the first floor are exposed purlins and curved wind-braces, and a central truss with cambered tie-beam, curved braces, a collar, and curved struts. The ground floor room of the main range has moulded main ceiling joists, probably inserted in the C16, and a stone inglenook fireplace.

Listing NGR: SP0751538691