Description

CODDENHAM CHURCH ROAD
TM 1354 8/9
Nos.1 to 5 (cons.), Church Cottages
9-12-55

GV II

A terrace of 5 houses. Built in two stages and probably as one house; a late C15 open hall house (now Nos. 1 and 2), with an extension to left of late C16. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered with some areas of late C18 or early C19 cable-pattern pargetting in panels. Plaintiled roof, hipped at right hand end. Four axial chimneys of red brick, one being of c.1600, later recapped. Mainly C19 small-pane casements and boarded entrance doors. (No.1 has a pair of casements and a boarded and battened door all of mid C20). A 2-bay open hall is mainly contained within No.1. The central open truss is incomplete, but has a tie-beam with a deep arch-brace springing from a chamfered pilaster. Complete smoke-blackened crown-post roof; the central cross-quadrate crownpost has lateral braces dovetailed into the collar, instead of being
tenoned as is normal. Good exposed framing: close-studding, blocked original windows with square mullions, and lodged heavy floor joists. An upper floor was inserted in the hall in late C16; plain joists, and a binding joist with leaf-carved chamfer stops. The C16 extension is unusually long and may have been added as a subsidiary dwelling; it has plain substantial framing, with arch-braced studwork and a plain crownpost roof.

Listing NGR: TM1326554205

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284701

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)