16, Market Street

HATHERLEIGH MARKET STREET, (south side), SS 5404 Hatherleigh 11/67 No. 16 - GV II

House. Early C16 with C17 alterations and C20 addition. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Rubble lateral stack at front with brick shaft. Brick stack at right gable end. Plan: 2-room and through-passage plan with smaller room to the right and left-hand room (hall) heated by front lateral stack. Originally open to the roof with central hearth to hall, probably open from end to end. Ceiled in circa early-mid C17 and stack inserted. C19 and C20 outshut added at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of late C19 4-pane sashes except for circa early C19 small paned bow window on ground floor to left. Contemporary 6- panelled door to right of centre. Interior: cobbled through passage. C17 plank and muntin screen to left side of passage has simply moulded edges to muntins, the left-hand side of the screen is more crudely finished. The door to the screen is made from a section of high quality C17 panelling found on the first floor of the house. Hall fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel and dressed stone jamb to the right which is chamfered on the outside. A small C19 leaded pane light is incorporated in the right-hand side wall of the fireplace. Cloam oven. First floor fireplace also has chamfered wooden lintel. Roof: one original timber of cruck form survives with a morticed apex but ridge collar and purlins now gone. It is difficult to tell if the truss is smoke- blackened or not but some obviously smoke-blackened rafters survive.

Listing NGR: SS5417404527