15 And 17, Station Road

STATION ROAD 1. 5253 (North Side) Nos 15 and 17 TL 4841 1510:1/10 24.7.75 II GV 2. C16. Long timberframed house subdivided. Medieval plan with parlour and hall (No 15), service rooms and early C18 lower brick rear wing (No 17). Large chimney and floor probably inserted in hall in C17. C18 stack added to E gable. C19 slate roofed lean-to behind No 15. Steep old tile roof gabled. 4 bay clasped purlin construction with wind braces. 2 storeys. 3 windows on each floor. 2 doors between windows. W gable weatherboard. E gable modern pargetting on timber frame. Front roughcast painted. Early C18,3 light mullioned windows with central casement. Plate casements on 1st floor with rectangular leaded glazing to No 15. Wooden casements to Gd floor. Plank doors, that to No 15 with shelf over on shaped brackets. Red brick rear wing in Flemish bond with plinth, small leaded window and central stack. Between house and stack 1½ storeys over deep cellar. 4 light dormer on W side with raking roof. Beyond stack a kitchen open to roof until c.1950. Interior of No 15 has old oak plank doors with blacksmith made hinges on both floors, a fine, early C18, corner cupboard in NW corner of parlour, chamfered axial beams and cross beams (cased in parlour), and moulded C18 wooden fire surround in parlour. Inside No 17, axial beam has evidence of partition between former pantry and buttery. Heavy shaped post in rear wall possibly part of original rear doorway. Curved tension brace in rear wall on 1st floor and blocked window. Named 'SPRINGHAMS' in deeds.

Listing NGR: TL4841215116