No 17 Including Forecourt Retaining Walls

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124

11/29 No 17 including forecourt 20.2.58 retaining walls

GV II

House. Date on front: "C. H. 1908." for Christine Hamlyn, possibly on a C17 site. Rubble core, smooth-rendered and colourwashed, gabled-ended slate roof with a clay ridge; brick stack to right. Plan: Direct entry from front door to a parlour to left with a gable-end fireplace, kitchen in room to right with gable-end fireplace. Single room depth, 2 rooms on ground floor. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 4 windows, on first floor 4 2-light casements with diamond-paned leaded lights, 3 similar casements on the ground floor. Door opening under second window from left, 9-panelled door in neo-C17 style, slated pent hood on 3 wooden brackets. Raised rubble forecourt with slate capping and iron railings. Interior: both the kitchen and parlour fireplace with wooden bressumers, to kitchen unchamfered, adjacent bread oven with iron door; parlour fireplace with chamfered lintol with stepped stops, indicating reuse of C17 timber. There is no evidence to suggest any of the present fabric of the house is C17. The house was at one time 2 divided into 2 dwellings.

Listing NGR: SS3173024811