13, 15 AND 17, WEST END ROAD

BRADNINCH WEST END ROAD (south-east side), SS 90 SE Bradninch 13/48 Nos. 13, 15 & 17 - GV II A row of 3 dwellings. C17, considerably remodelled. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a single 3-room, through-passage plan house, the lower end to the left, and now No. 17 (ie. front facing away from West End Road), the passage now forming a common access to the separate houses. The lower roof ridge line of No.13 (formerly the inner room) possibly represents the original height of the old house. 2 end stacks, one to No.15 occupying the gable wall above the apex of the roof of No.13, and serving both, and a front lateral stack to No.15 (the Hall). 2 storeys throughout. Front: No.13 with 2 large C19 or C20 2-light casement windows to 1st floor, a wide doorway below with another C19 2-light casement window to the left; a C19 brick, slate-roofed shed is now joined to the house. No. 15 with 2 similar windows above, and 1 to either side of door. No. 17 treated similarly, except that the right-hand ground-floor window is of 3 lights, 15 leaded panes per light. Rear: Scattered fenestration: No.13 with a 2-light dormer, a 2-light 1st floor casement window with 9 leaded panes per light; and 3 C19 windows of 1 and 2 lights and varying sizes to ground floor. Nos. 15 and 17 together with 5 1st floor windows at different levels including two 2-light casement windows with leaded panes, 1 with 9, the other with 12 panes per light. 2 ground floor sash windows (1 with 4 panes in upper sash, 8 in lower), and a 3-light casement window with C20 latticed leading. Interior: to No.13, with 2 cross beams to left-hand ground-floor room with step hollow and scroll stops; fireplace timber lintel with crude step stops. 1 large truss visible with trenched purlins and what could be the lower part of a saddle (apex concealed). No. 17: beam with step stop, and doorway into through-passage with stopped chamfered surround.

Listing NGR: SS9973803881