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84 Derby Road
Spondon
Derbyshire
DE21 7LX
Location | Norton St Philip, Wick Farm House, Somerset |
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Grid reference | ST 788 572 |
Description | This large farmhouse of unusually high status is thought to be the property of Charterhouse Priory. It comprises three rooms in line, a hall (21 ft span) with an inserted high-end fireplace, cross passage, service and inner rooms. The roof structure includes three extended arch-braced cruck trusses, over the two-bay hall (apex type B) with intermediates. Three chamfered purlins on each side (the bottom ones square-set) are tenoned in line, and two tiers of curved windbraces form together a high quality roof. The roof timbers are tree-ring dated to 1371/2, which confirms a 14th century date estimate d for the two-centred stone arched and moulded entrance doorway which has a filleted convex-moulded hood. Evidence for a smoke louvre remains. |
Type of Building | Farmhouse |
Type of Structure | Cruck |
DATES | |
Type of date | Tree-ring (ring width) date. |
Felling Date | 1372 |
Period | Medieval |
Century | 14 |
Date | 1371/2 |
IDENTIFIERS | |
VA Volume No. | 29 |
VA Page No. | 125 |
List sequence id | 1046 |
Laboratory | Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory (and predecessors) |
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