Survey Data
Reg No
15613011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1903
Coordinates
312409, 134035
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan. Hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed wire scallops, red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and chicken wire-covered blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Shell-encrusted rendered battered wall to front (west) elevation; part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and shell-encrusted surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and shell-encrusted surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of Blackwater by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced 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 somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degrading oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including eye-catching Folk Art-like shell work (cf. 15704615), thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a picturesque visual statement in a rural village street scene.