Juniper Cottage

SU 03 SE BURCOMBE WITHOUT SOUTH BURCOMBE (south side)

2/116 Juniper Cottage

GV II

Detached cottage. Probably C15, altered C17 and C19. Square- paneLLed timber framing, brick and rubble stone to rebuilt solar end, thatched roof with half-hip to left and hip to right, axial brick stack. Hall house with 1½ bay former open hall, divided from 2-storey 1-bay unheated service end by through passage, solar range to west rebuilt in 2 storeys, probably C17. Two-storey, 3-window front. Planked door and 2-light casement to left with two 2-light casements and blocked door to right. First floor has eyebrow dormer with 2-light casement to left and two 2-light casements to right part. Left return has two 2-light casements and exposed full cruck. Rear has C20 casements and C20 conservatory, solar range set-back from hall. Interior retains most features of the hall house, together with C17 insertions, although the rebuilding of the solar has removed evidence for the late Medieval phase at this end of the house. Through passage has C17 plank and muntin partition inserted on hall side of former screen; beam with wattle holes for screen retained, service end with heavy chamfered beam and exposed joists. Open fireplaces in inserted stack of half-bay of hall with chamfered lintels on stone jambs, inserted ceiling with chamfered beams, winding stairs to rear of hall. First floor over hall has exposed full cruck with arch-braced cambered collar; chamfered soffit and ogee apex to arch-brace, chamfered purlins with curved windbracing, all of heavy scantling. One of several good examples of cruck- built hall houses in the Nadder Valley, see also Little Orchard (q.v. Barford St. Martin), Chicksgrove Manor (q.v. Tisbury).

Listing NGR: SU0691931020