7 And 8, High Street

ST 9958 POTTERNE HIGH STREET (east side)

14/159 Nos 7 and 8 (formerly listed as Nos 1 to 4 Porch House Cottages) 19.3.62 GV II

Pair of houses, c1600 timber-framed with plaster panels on rubble stone plinth. Plain tile roof with C19 ridge stack and north end stack on front slope. Two storeys, long 3-window range with continuously jettied upper floor, close-studded ground floor and square-framed first floor, each panel with concave-sided lozenge decoration, unusual in Wiltshire. All windows renewed in late C19 with leaded cross-windows, three upper windows under small gablets, a C19 invention, Ground foor has cross-window, plank door to No 7, cross-window, C19 plank door to through passage and 5-light transomed window. Rear has exposed framing and 3 C19 pointed gabled dormers. Ground floor has heavy chamfered beams with bar stops. One mid C18 corner fireplace with fluted keystone to No 7. No 7 was probably the hall and parlour range, No 8 the kitchen of a single house. (Wiltshire Buildings Record)

Listing NGR: ST9948958434