Hill View Including Adjoining Arch To South.

SU737451 1687/17/10033 24-JAN-00

ODIHAM ALTON ROAD Hill View including adjoining arch to south.

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House and adjacent arch. Circa 1730s; C20 alterations. Flemish bond red brick with brick platbands. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan with central entrance lobby in front of staircase at back; both rooms heated from gable end fireplaces. The house is built into cliff of a large chalk pit. There is a large arch to the left [S] of the house, integral with the house, and also built into the chalk cliff. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay east front with platbands at first and second floor levels, the ground and first floor openings have cambered brick arches; all C20 casements, second floor right blocked; central doorway also with cambered arch and C20 door. To left [S] a large segmental brick arch built into the chalk cliff, with a later lean-to outshut on the front. At rear where the ground level is higher the house is only 1 storey; C20 porch and C20 casements to left and right. INTERIOR: The floors are supported on chamfered beams with run-out or cyma stops. Chimneypieces and most of the joinery replaced. Original roof structure with staggered tenoned purlins and high collars morticed and tenoned to the principals and common-rafter couples intact, without a ridgepiece. On the chalk walls of the cellar there is some graffiti. NOTE: Hill View is situated adjacent to the entrance of a very large chalk pit.