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Cruck Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire

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Latitude: 51.6395 / 51°38'22"N

Longitude: -1.214 / 1°12'50"W

OS Eastings: 454490

OS Northings: 193704

OS Grid: SU544937

Mapcode National: GBR 90J.5W7

Mapcode Global: VHCYF.X12Z

Plus Code: 9C3WJQQP+RC

Entry Name: Cruck Cottage

Listing Date: 14 June 1963

Last Amended: 4 November 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1047869

English Heritage Legacy ID: 248700

ID on this website: 101047869

Location: Long Wittenham, South Oxfordshire, OX14

County: Oxfordshire

District: South Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Long Wittenham

Built-Up Area: Long Wittenham

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Long Wittenham with Little Wittenham

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


LONG WITTENHAM HIGH STREET
SU5493 (North side)
9/87 Cruck Cottage
14/06/63 (Formerly listed as No. 18/18A)

GV II

House. C14 with C16 cross-wing. Cruck-framed; limestone rubble base; large
timber-framing; rendered infill to left; brick infill to centre, and left and
right returns of cross-wing; thatch roof with old plain-tile valley; brick
central ridge stack, lateral stack to left return of cross-wing. Single-storey,
3-window range to left, 2-storey cross-wing to right. C20 porch to rear.
Irregular fenestration of casements and sashes. Roof half-hipped to left,
cross-gable to cross-wing. 3 full crucks to C14 portion. Jointed crucks to
cross-wing with curved wind-braces. C16 doors to some rooms of C16 cross-wing.
(Derek Portman "Cruck Houses in Long Wittenham", Berkshire Archaeological
Journal Vol.56, 1958, p.35-45; Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.171).


Listing NGR: SU5449093704

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