Scriveners

ST41SE EAST CHINNOCK CP COLLEGE (West side)

3/60 Scriveners formerly listed as The Old House) 19.4.61 - II

Cottage. Late C17 with later wing and outshut. Cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings; double Roman clay tiled roof, bargeboarded gables (replacing thatch); end brick chimney stacks. 2-storeys, 3-bays. Hollow chamfer 3-light mullioned windows with plain panes to ground floor bays 1 and 3; entrance door to bay-2 with chamfered cambered arch doorway with massive stone lintel; continuous label over and between windows, stepped up over door; fairly early wood casements to first floor, with iron opening lights fitted with old catches. Interior not seen, but reported are a good cambered arched fireplace with incised spandrils and ogee/hollow moulding in North room, with a plainer fireplace in South room; chamfered crossbeams with rounded steps and runout stops; 4 collar roof trusses with trapped ridge, halved joint collars and two purlins each side, pegged and nailed. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1977).

Listing NGR: ST4956213225