Description

THORNER MAIN STREET SE3740 LS14 (west side) 16/193 No 26 22.7.81

GV II

House and workshop and furniture store. Late C17 details in west gable, early C19 fenestration to street elevation. Rubble west gable, rendered facade, Welsh blue-slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. 4 first-floor windows, that to left above passage. Plinth. From left: doorway with multi-pane sash window above; 4-pane sash in flush wood architrave with same above; doorway with overlight; C19 shop front with 4 arched windows and double-door to left with corner pilasters, entablature and cornice; sash window above. Coped gables. Brick ridge stack and external ashlar stack partly obscured by linking bay to No 22 (q.v.) open to ground floor with 1st-floor room with tunnel under to rear courtyard. Left-hand return has truncated stack, corbelled from 1st-floor, to left of 2-light double- chamfered mullioned window (blocked).

Interior: the 1st cell is open to the roof and was reputedly a chapel used for non-conformist worship, the room being lit by the large sash window immediately above the door.

Listing NGR: SE3776640365

External Links

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)