16, High Street

HATHERLEIGH HIGH STREET, (south side), SS 5404 Hatherleigh 11/39 No. 16 - GV II House. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins, with late C17 or early C18 addition. Plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. Projecting plastered rubble stack at right gable end with brick shaft and rendered probably rubble lateral stack to rear wing. Plan: Probably originally extended further to left but now consists of through passageway at left end with heated room to the right and rear wing behind it consisting of one heated room with outbuilding beyond which may be a slightly later addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front. Slight projection at left end nas C20 plank door to passageway. Canted bay window above which is late C18 or early C19 horizontal 3-light sliding 18-pane sash with 3-pane lights to either side. Similar 3-light horizontal sliding sash to right on each floor. Interior: passageway has chamfered C17 doorframe at rear with contemporary studded plank door. The passage has a brick floor. Right-hand room has open fireplace with chamfered and stopped wooden lintel and chamfered stone jambs, the left-hand one incised with the initials I.M and the date 1757. Stone oven in left-hand side. Early plank doors and oak floorboards survive on the first floor. The old lime plaster is still preserved on internal walls and ceilings. Roof: there is no access to the roofspace over the house but the feet of straight principals are visible on the first floor. Over the rear outbuilding a late C18 or C19 roof survives with straight principals onto which the wany collars are lapped and pegged. This house survives in a very unaltered state both internally and externally.

Listing NGR: SS5418604404