Description

GRAFTON AND RADCOT
SU2899-2999
11/50 Radcot Bridge House
- II

Shown on O.S. map as Radcot Bridge Farm.
Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C17 extended 1726 (datestone) and C19. Uncoursed
limestone rubble; stone slate roofs. L-plan comprising main range of 2-cell
central baffle-entry plan with short rear range to right; main range extended by
one room to left in 1726 and rear range extended in C19. 2 storeys and gable-lit
attic. 3 windows on each floor, those to first floor directly below eaves, lower
left with wood lintel, centre and right with C17 dripstones; all early C19
three-light leaded casements, except for plain mid-C19 casement to lower left.
Nail-studded plank door under C20 gabled porch between centre and right windows
with faint suggestion of infilled doorway immediately to right. Chamfered narrow
rectangular opening to attic to right gable end and 2 infilled windows on first
floor. C20 brown brick ridge stacks with earlier dripstones immediately to right
of entrance and at junction with 1726 addition (formerly an end stack). C18
addition has integral end stack with dripstone and capping, heightened in brown
brick. C17 part of rear range has moulded rectangular window to ground floor
with wood casement and iron bars to outside. Full-length catslide outshut to
rear range in angle to rear. Interior. Left ground-floor room with date "1726"
inscribed in jamb of doorway to back wall has chamfered spine beam with flat
joists and stone inglenook fireplace with slightly cambered head. Nail-studded
plank door with cambered head. Nail-studded plank door with strap hinges to
above-mentioned doorway. Centre room has stone-flag floor, chamfered spine beam
and inglenook fireplace with wood lintel. Splayed window to back wall now
opening into outshut. Right room has reused richly moulded ceiling beam with
chamfer stops and sawn-off ends of cross and ring beams, probably removed before
being brought to its present location. Inglenook fireplace with chamfered jambs
and chamfered wood lintel has panelled door to right with H-hinges formerly
leading to winder staircase. Chamfered cross beams on first floor, now mainly
boxed. C19 addition to rear range is said to have been former coach house. There
are extensive earthworks, known as The Garrison, in the field to the south.
[2345]

Listing NGR: SU2842599722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26305135

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)