Seven Stars

SUTTON-UNDER-WHITESTONECLIFFE MAIN STREET SE 4882 - 4982 (SOUTH SIDE) 10/41 SEVEN STARS - II House. Probably C16 with C20 additions and alterations. Cruck frame clad in rendered stone and brick with some wattle and daub studding surviving; C20 interlocking tile roof. Baffle-entry plan. Single storey with attic, 3 cells, with C20 additions to rear (not of special interest). Between left-hand bays is a c1980 gabled stone proch with a 2-light window to left and a 3-light and a 2-light window to right, all C20 side-sliding sashes. Three C20 gabled dormers with barge boards and finials. End stacks and one to ridge above door, all rendered. Single-storey range attached to left end not of special interest. Interior: of the cruck frame, the truss at the left end is visible at attic level, with tiebeam and collar; the truss between the central and right-hand cells is fully visible with the rear cruck on a padstone; tiebeam, collar and part of wattle and daub infill with studs at attic level; the truss at the right end has only the front inch visible. There is a large-scantling ridge piece. The rear wall of the central cell has a stone plinth supporting close-studded infill and this cell also has stop-chamfered joists and a scarf-jointed chamfered spine beam.

Listing NGR: SE4858982524