Traditional Houses of the Worthy Villages

At the request of the Worthys Local History Group Edward Roberts and Bill Fergie spent the best part three years researching the surviving timber framed houses of the four villages to the north-east of Winchester which incorporate ‘Worthy’ in their name. The exercise stemmed from a talk Bill gave to the Group in 2017 when some of the residents indicated that the area contained houses that would re-pay detailed investigation.
With the luxury of the time to examine the houses in some detail Edward and Bill spent looked at a total of 25 traditional houses. While nearly all the houses studied are ‘listed’ as being of architectural and/or historical interest, many have features which show them to be significantly older than the original assessors’ more cursory surveys were able to establish.