Eastleigh

WILBURTON HIGH STREET TL 4874 (South Side)

23/40 Eastleigh

GV II

House. C15 origin, mid C17, and c1720. Some rebuilding to front first floor and north end of c1840. Timber-frame, c1720 narrow local brick as casing and early C19 grey gault brick. Plain tiled roof with grey gault brick ridge stack and south end stack. Single range plan with lobby entry from east side and service on south end. Two storeys and attic. Front wall mainly of c1720 narrow, local brick, Flemish bond, with part of first floor repaired and rebuilt in c1840 grey gault brick. Three first floor modern flush frame twelve pane hung sashes in open boxing. Three similar ground floor windows and doorway to lobby entry. Doorway has panelled door and cut bracketted hood. South gable end has mid C17 exposed framing. The house was extended on west side by a few feet up to the road in c1720, when the brick caisng was carried out. It forms a lean-to passage or corridor parallel to the main rooms of the mid C17 house. The north end has turning corners. At the south end the service range has early C18 narrow local brick in the front and larger red brick, of late C17-early C18 on the rear. Single storey. Interior: The C15 origins remain in a main beam and heavy unmoulded joists above the inglenook in a room on the south end of the house. The inglenook is mid C17 but the area of ceiling framing is C15. Some framing is visible including ovolo main beams and wall framing of the original external wall on the west side which has been internal since the c1720 alterations. This framing has straight downward joists. There is a middle rail. A parlour hearth at the north end has original brickwork and wood lintel. At the south end there are back-to-back inglenooks.

Listing NGR: TL4835674876