Trumpeters

SU7433 1645/11/10008 19-OCT-00

SELBORNE ADAMS LANE Trumpeters

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House. Circa early C18; extended in the C19 and C20. Stone rubble with red brick window dressings. Thatched roof with gabled and hipped ends. Red brick gable-end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan, each room heated from a gable-end fireplace; the two rooms are now one large room and the partitions to what was probably a central cross-passage have been removed. Outshut and C19 extensions at rear, circa early C19 1-bay extension at right [E] end and circa late C19/early C20 outshut on left [W] end. Late C20 outshut built on front of right end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. 2-window south front, 2 and 3-light casements, attic windows under eyebrow eaves, ground floor left large blocked window with C20 casement inserted, central C20 glazed door; C20 outshut on right. Exposed timber-framing on east end under hipped roof. Thatched roof at rear carried down to low eaves over outshut on left, taller extension at centre and tile roof over small parallel range on right [W]. Single-storey brick outshut on west end with tile lean-to roof. INTERIOR: Partition between two ground floor rooms has been removed, the right hand [E] part has chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and fireplace reduced by later fireplace; fireplace at left [W] end blocked; both fireplaces had ovens. Original roof structure with collar and tie-beam trusses with clasped purlins and with common-rafter couples and thatching battens intact. NOTE: Trumpeters was the home of John Newland, the 'trumpeter' who led the Selborne Workhouse Riot of 1830, when the workhouse was attacked because of increases in Poor Rate and Church tithes.