Shoplands

HIGH BICKINGTON SS 62 SW 5/82 Shoplands - II

House. Late C17 with late C20 addition. Rendered cob with gable-ended C20 asbestos- slate roof. Red-brick end stack to right. Plan and development: C17 two-room central entrace plan. Larger principal room to right with entrance to front and integral end stack, and smaller unheated room to left, formerly with staircase to rear, now entrance hall. Entrance moved to the left-hand room at a later date. Late C19 lean-to outshut at rear. Late C20 one- roomed plan addition to left, probably a converted outbuilding. Two storeys. Exterior: Nearly symmetrical front. Five windows to first floor; three C19 two-light wooden casements to right and two C20 two-light wooden casements to left. Ground- floor C19 three-light wooden casement (lighting principal room) to far right and ground-floor C20 three-light casement to far left. Central inserted doorway with C20 half-glazed door, former principal entrance to right with C20 glazed door and doorway in C20 addition to left with glazed door. Interior: Right-hand ground-floor room (hall) has C17 chamfered cross beam, chamfered cross beam alongside right-hand end wall and head beam in left-hand room (present entrance hall). Roofspace not inspected but straight feet of probable C17 trusses noted in first- floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SS6135220595