24, Holders Road

AMESBURY HOLDERS ROAD SU 1641 12/47 No 24

II Experimental smallholder's dwelling. 1919-20, for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Colourwashed cob on flint and brick sill, plain tiled roof. Two storeys, 2 x 2 bays, the left bay extended and gabled to rear. Off-centre entrance to stair lobby, living room to left and kitchen and bathroom to rear. Reeded door and later glazed porch. Sheet glass windows with concrete lintels. Roof hipped and sprocketed, with 2 brick stacks, 5-flue stack to left and 2-flue on ridge to right. Walls are of 47cm cob, reducing in thickness on first floor, laid in approximately 45cm lifts with slate d.p.c. and tile covering string course. Suspended timber floors to front rooms. Original iron range in living room replaced and larger windows inserted in left bay. Interior partitions of brick, and reeded doors. The external wall finish is as originally planned for the initial five DSIR experimental low cost houses. (Building Research Special Report No 5 1922; Country Life 20th and 27th November 1920; Clough Williams Ellis: 'Building in Cob, Pise, and Stabilised Earth' 1922)

Listing NGR: SU1620241726