58, High Street

SP 8020 WHITCHURCH HIGH STREET (east side)

9/213 No. 58 (formerly listed as Nos. 56 and 58)

21.12.67

GV II

House. Early-mid C16 and early C17, altered C18, with remnant of medieval cruck house. Whitewashed render and roughcast over timber frame and plinth, old tile roof, brick chimneys to centre and between left bays. 2 storeys, the upper jettied to front with higher first floor in third bay. 4 bays. C18 leaded casements, 3-light to first floor and bays 2 and 4 of ground floor. Other ground floor bays have canted bay windows, that to right with C18 moulded plaster cornice. Central lobby entry with board door in architrave frame; C20 half-glazed door in recess in right bay; another board door in lean-to to left with board hood on shaped brackets. C19-C20 lean-to extensions to rear. One cruck blade attached to rear left-hand corner. Interior: third bay has large fireplace with moulded 4-centred wooden lintel, moulded cross beams, altered central truss with remains of arch-braced collar, and arched wind-braces. Left bays have slightly later framing with curved wind-braces and 3 re-sited moulded stone fireplaces with 4-centred arches. RCHM II p. 326 Mon.6.

Listing NGR: SP8022020752