Hemborne

This is a house dating from around the 16th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the front wall rebuilt in whitewashed brick around the early 19th century. The rear gable is timber-framed, and the roof is covered in clay plain tiles with gabled ends. Brick stacks are located at the axial and gable ends.

The house originally comprised two rooms; the right-hand room (the hall) had an axial fireplace serving a cross-passage on its north side, and an unheated room to the south. A short wing was added to the rear of the south room in the 17th century, and an outshut behind the hall in the 18th century.

The east front has two storeys and three windows. The ground floor’s left window and the first floor’s right window are 2 and 3-light windows with iron casements and glazing bars, having replaced the original windows. A late 20th-century porch covers the doorway on the right. At the rear (west) is a short timber-framed wing with brick nogging. The main roof extends down to the low eaves of the outshut, incorporating two gabled dormers.

The right-hand room contains a large stone fireplace with a stop-chamfered timber bressumer and brick oven. Inside are stop-chamfered joists and a deeply chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, supported by a chimneystack and a corbelled post in the central partition. The south room also has an axial beam supported on a corbelled partition post, along with stop-chamfered joists and a corner fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The room in the rear wing has large, roughly-hewn joists. The roof appears to have been reconstructed from old materials, with diagonal ridgepieces and common rafters intact. The central truss has struts to the principals, on which are set purlins, those in the south bay featuring redundant mortices.