Uppacott - Transcripts

Front Elevation

• Val Harrison - Description of front elevation
• Peter Beacham - The longhouse tradition
• Ian Mercer - The DNPAs purchase of Higher Uppacott
• Freda Wilkinson - Importance of preserving the unaltered shippon
• Peter Beacham - Management of the house
• Bill Allen - Timeless nature of the house
• Peter Beacham - Intimate nature of the house
• Val Harrison - The combed wheat reed thatching tradition
• John Letts - The combed wheat reed thatching tradition
• David Trant - The craft of the thatcher

Cross Passage

• John Thorp - The cross passage
• Freda Wilkinson - Medieval door
• John Thorp - Medieval door
• Margaret Norrish - Wooden partition
• John Thorp - Wooden partition
• Val Harrison - 16th century chimney stack

Shippon

• Bill Allen - Special atmosphere
• John Thorp - Description of shippon
• Freda Wilkinson - Construction of tallet floor
• Freda Wilkinson - Tethering posts
• John Thorp - Owl hole
• John Thorp - Raised cruck truss
• Edith Helley - Memory of cattle in shippon
• Freda Wilkinson - Seasonal use of shippon

Hall

• Deborah Griffiths - The hub of the medieval house
• John Thorp - Living in a medieval house
• Margaret Norrish - Memory of grandmother
• Bill Allen - Sensible living space
• Deborah Griffiths - Development of the house
• Keith McKay - Creation of a new window
• John Thorp - 17th century window
• John Thorp - Spice cupboard
• Peter Beacham - Keeping place or spice cupboard

Inner Room Chamber

• John Thorp - Creation of the inner room chamber
• Margaret Norrish - Bedroom furniture during the 1930s

Hall Chamber

• John Thorp - Re-roofing the upper end of the house
• Margaret Norrish - Bedroom furniture during the 1930s
• Bill Allen - Insulating effect of the thatch

Roof Space

• John Throp - Smoked blackened roof timbers and thatch
• John Letts - Description of the historic thatch
• David Trant - The thatching process
• Roger Hill - Growing wheat reed for thatch

Parlour

• John Thorp - 17th century addition of a parlour wing
• Deborah Griffiths - Social decline of the house
• Malcolm Whiteside - Memory of the cottage in the 1950s
• Rose Partridge - Mr and Mrs Warren and their six children
• Malcolm Whiteside - Description of the room in the 1950a
• Valerie Crocker - Memory of visiting grandparents
• Edith Helley - Description of the room during the 1920s and ë30s

Parlour Chamber 1

• John Thorp - First floor fireplace with scroll stop on lintel
• Edith Helley - Bedroom furniture in the 1920s
• Rose Partridge - Bedroom furniture in the 1930s

Parlour Chamber 2

• Rose Partridge - Memory of visiting grandparents
• Edith Helley - Bedroom furniture and memory of visiting the toilet across the road during the night

Yard

• Deborah Griffiths - 1970s conversion of the outbuildings and purchase by the NPA in 2002
• Rose Partridge - Memory of the yard during the 1930s
• Malcolm Whiteside - Description of the yard and outbuildings in the 1950s
• Valerie Crocker - Memory of playing in the barn during the 1950s
• Rose Partridge - Tramps sleeping in the barn
• Edith Helley - Visiting tramps; water from the trough across the road
• Edith Helley - The porch floor
• Rose Partridge - The dung heap and garden

Houndtor

• Deborah Griffiths - Description of the longhouses at the deserted medieval settlement of Houndtor
• Dave Hannaford - The process of repairing archaeological dry stone walls

Dating Sequence

• Deborah Griffiths - Dating by architectural stylistic variations
• Keith McKay - Description of the step stop
• John Thorp - Dating by architectural stylistic variations