Description

WHIMPLE SY 0497-0597 10/245 Slewton House - GV II

House. Mid - late C17 (maybe earlier) origins, thoroughly refurbished and enlarged in the mid C19. Plastered local stone rubble, parts may be cob; stone rubble and brick stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: basically a U-plan house. The main entrance front faces south-east. It has a 2-room -and-through-passage plan with a 2-room plan parlour crosswing projecting to rear on the left (south-west) end. The room to right of the passage is a service room with a projecting gable-end stack. Maybe it was the kitchen. A service wing projects at right angles to rear and it has a gable-end stack. The room to left of the passage shares an axial stack with the adjoining room of the crosswing. The rear parlour has an end stack. The passage leads back to a stair hall between the rear blocks and another room alongside the parlour. Wing has a lateral stack. The service end and rear block show evidence of a mid - late C17 house but most is the result of a thorough refurbishment of the mid C19. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: on the entrance front the end of the parlour crosswing is blind and flanked with panelled stucco pilasters with acanthus motif tops. To right a symmetrical 3-window front of attractive mid C19 casements with a margin-pane pattern of glazing bars to the ground floor with plain C20 casements to the first floor. These windows are arranged around the passsage front doorway which contains a mid C19 4-panel door with overlight and contemporary simple flat-roofed Tuscan porch with slender piers. The parlour wing garden front (to south-west) has a complete symmetrical 3-window front of similar mid C19 casements with margin-pane pattern of glazing bars. Here the ground floor windows are French windows, one each side of a central round-headed niche. Here too are flanking stucco panelled pilasters with moulded acanthus-motif caps. Eaves are carried on pairs of shaped timber brackets. The roof this side is hipped both ends. The entrance front roof is gable-ended to right. At the back the original mid C19 fenestration is essentially intact and uses the same margin pane casements except on the outer (north-east) side of the service wing where they are contemporary casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. Interior: is largely mid C19 and includes a great deal of joinery and other detail from that time. The rignt end of the main block however shows mid - late C17 crossbeams, chamfered with cut diagonal stops. Roof not inspected but it is said that no roof trusses show at first floor level. Slewton House has earlier origins but it must be regarded essentially as a mid C19 house, modest but very attractive and well-preserved. These margin -panes casement windows appear to be the product of a local workshop and a feature of a few adjacent parishes here.

Listing NGR: SY0480697522

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