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Among interesting features noted was the extensive use of secondzrhand
material including a painted beam which appeared to have formed
the upper part of a screen with slots for studs; it was painted
yellow and had scroll Y decoration in brown. The flooring was
investigated ovtr Ùle hall and it was noticed that the walls at
first floor level narrowed by six inches. The joists here fit
into beams with run parallel along the edges of the North-South
walls. The boards are exceptionally wide 35 - 39 cms and 22 cms
thick. Beneath them about 30 brass pins, a brass thimble, a
spoon-shaped piece of lead, 3 glass beads and a quantity of walnut
shells were found.
CHURCH FARM,HAMPTON POYLE (PRN 11,971) (SP/5001555) - Iva]. Hornbrook
- and John Stéane
This listed building is a farmhouse of three bays. It is
probably originally 18th century in daté and figures on the 1797
enclosure map but it has been much repaired and the front facade is
a good deal rebuilt with ashlar quoins brought in from elsewhere.It is of
two storeys, 3 19th-century stone framed and mullioned windows
with metal casements. There are gable-end projecting stone chimney
stacks. The rest of the farm buildings include a barn which has been
largely rebuilt and a small stone stable with pitched cobbling
floor, manger and tethering places for 3 horses and an upper loft
for hay approached by means of an external staircase. This is butted up
against the building with a dog kennel underneath it,cf.Cogges Manor
Farm Stable PRN 4601. Our thanks to Mr. H. Webster for inviting us to
see the house.
17 HIGH STREET.SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD (PRN 11,884) (SP/27681720) - John Steane
Following a small excavation made in his front garden by Mr. Allard,
a survey was.made of the foundations of a gable ended building, probably
of late medieval date. A number of sherds of Tudor Green pottery were
found'in association. A stone lined drain cut across the lower end
and another ran parallel and outside it. There was a pitched-stone
yard surface adjoining the foundations on two sides between it and
the house. The house-is a,small one bay 16th century building with
stone mullioned windows, 3 light, (mullions are ovolo sectioned) on
the first floor and a 4 light window on the ground floor. The timber
lintelled fireplace on the ground floor may be secondary since it
appears to conflict with the siting of a blocked door on the right.
44.- 47 GREAT TEW (PRN 12,367) (SP/39562932) - John Steane
Following a planning application to renovate and infill a survey
was made of these cottages. A masonry charge suggests that Nos 43, 44
and 45 with rubbly random masonry and smaller stones are earlier. They
are a terrace of small cottages, two and a half stories high and thatched.
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