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house — Orristown Crossroads

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Detached three- or five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", ----, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having red brick corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Gritdashed roughcast battered wall to front (west) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Hipped square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC door having sidelights. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road on a slightly elevated site.

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