29, Bridge Street

HATHERLEIGH BRIDGE STREET, (east side), SS 5404 Hatherleigh 11/28 No. 29 - GV II House. Probably late medieval with C17 alterations and C18 or C19 addition. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended asbestos slate roof. Brick stack at right end and rendered stone axial stack with brick shaft. Plan: room plan, left-hand room probably the hall and heated by axial stack which backs onto wide passageway leading through house to rear courtyard. The existence of one cruck truss suggests that the house may originally have had an open hall and been floored in the C17 but this could not be proved without an inspection of the roof-space which was not possible at the time of survey. Probably C18 or early C19 wing behind left-hand room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of circa mid C20 3-light casements. To right of centre is wide opening to passageway with double C20 plank doors. Interior: the passage is cobbled and paved. To the rear of the stack on the left- hand side is a section of chamfered plank and muntin screen. Left-hand room has chamfered and stopped axial beams. Fireplaces blocked. Right-hand room has roughly chamfered beam and open fireplace with roughly chamfered wooden lintel. At this end of the house the foot of a jointed cruck is visible and it is possible that more of the original roof survives although a new roof has obviously been put on top.

Listing NGR: SS5413104344