Thorverton

SS 90 SW 8/154

THORVERTON SILVER STREET, Thorverton No 7 (Thorverton)

GV II

House. C18 with some late C19 remodelling but possibly a thorough refashioning of an earlier building on the site. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, gable end of rear wing timber framed with brick infill ; slate roof, gabled at ends and gabled at end of wing ; end stacks with brick shafts, right end stack projecting, large projecting lateral stack to rear wing. Plan : Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with a central entrance into an entrance hall with the principal stair in a gabled turret to the rear of the entrance hall, principal rooms to left and right. Rear right kitchen wing at right angles to the main range heated by a lateral stack. The main range has been extended to the rear bringing the rear elevation flush with the stair turret: this extension has provided a service stair adjacent to the main stair and a glazed late C19 garden room under a catslide roof to rear left. Exterior 2 storeys. Symmetrical bay 7 front with deep eaves carried on moulded brackets above coving. Wide central C20 porch with Doric columns and a cornice ; panelled front door (top panels glazed) with an eared architrave. Fenestration of 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has a gabled stair turret with a large rectangular stair window with glazing bars. The late C19 garden room to the right of the turret is glazed to the garden. The lateral stack on the right return of the kitchen wing is large and may date from a C17 building phase. Interior C18 joinery survives, including shutters and doors. Pretty principal stair with slender turned balusters and a square newel post. Pitched stone flooring survives below the boarded floor of parts of the kitchen wing. Roof kitchen wing only inspected : pegged x apex collar rafter roof trusses of an C18 date ; similar roof trusses said to survive in main range. Thorverton was formerly part of the the Pynes Estate and is referred to as Pynes Tenement before the name changed to Thorverton. A substantial gentleman's house in Silver Street, slightly set back from the road and forming a good group with other detached houses.

Listing NGR: SS9269702067