Orchard House And Vine House

CREWKERNE

ST4409 ORCHARD LANE 876-1/7/149 (West side) 06/09/74 Orchard House and Vine House (Formerly Listed as: ORCHARD LANE Orchard House)

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House, now 2 dwellings. C16 or C17 and early C19. MATERIALS: coursed and squared Ham Hill stone, slate roof with stepped stone coping and rendered stacks to gable ends and left-of-centre of ridge. PLAN: 3-unit through-passage plan with rear right wing. The right-hand range and the rear wing are now another dwelling called Vine House. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 4-window range. Windows are C19. The first floor has flat gauged stone arches over 2 tall 3-light casements to the left and wooden lintels to horned 6/6-pane sashes to the right. The ground floor has an 8/8-pane sash to the far left, a large C20 replaced 3-light leaded casement to inside left and a c1840 doorcase with key-patterned tops to panelled pilasters and a moulded cornice; the door has 5-panels, one horizontal to the middle, all with C19 bolection moulding and raised panels with cut-out corners; ground-floor windows to the right. The rear wing is trapezoid with the gable end canted to the shape of the lane to the rear. INTERIOR: the room to the left has a chamfered axial beam; the C19 staircase to the rear left is closed string with stick balusters, stepped and swept pine rail and turned newel; the wall to the right of the door is 2 metres thick with a C20 fireplace in the central room, probably a former open fireplace; this room has oak floorboards, an early C19 reeded cornice and elliptical arches flanking the fireplace. The door to the attic stairs at the left end is C17 with H hinges, the winding stairs and attic floorboards are oak; the plastered and rounded top of the ridge stack remains; early C18 small square hatch giving onto the eaves space has one raised and fielded panel; the wide front door has raised and fielded panelling to the back and could be remodelled early C18. The rear right wing has a stone-flagged floor and a chamfered cross beam.

Listing NGR: ST4425509797