Survey Data
Reg No
15613006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
312229, 134129
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered wall to front (south) elevation; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Road fronted with tarmacadam footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Blackwater by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degrading oat thatch finish.