The Orchard Or Little Orchard, And Front Boundary Railings

DINNINGTON CP HOLLOW LANE (West side)

ST41SW The Orchard or Little Orchard, 5/16 and front boundary railings

4.2.58

GV II

Detached house, Earlier C17. Ham stone near-ashlar; thatched roof with coped south gable; plain gable to north; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Reserve-chamfered mullioned windows, of 3 lights to upper bays 1, 3 and 4 with 2-light upper bay 2, and below 4-light to lower 1 and 5-light to bays 3 and 4, these lower windows with labels; all windows rectangular-leaded with iron-framed opening casements, some having curl stays; to lower bay 2 a C20 boarded part-glazed door in plain recess. South gable plain; C20 windows in north gable, later outshut to rear in rubble stonework. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-unit cross-passage plan; collar-beam trussed roof with scarfed trenched purlins; signs of former doorway in rear of building, large but modified fireplaces. About 3 metres in front of house, with curved returns back to house at each end, a low stone kerbing with wrought-iron railings having spear-points, with braced standards carrying cast urn finials, and pair of matching gates opposite the doorway, all contributing to the setting of the house and of the street scene, (VAG Report, SRO unpublished, 1973).

Listing NGR: ST4023713027