Description

ILTON CP
ST31NE ILFORD

3/67 Bramble Cottage

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GV II

Detached cottage. C15 and later. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, some ashlar dressings, some rendered cob; thatched
roof with coped west gable, plain to east; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attic, 4 bays. Hollow-chamfered
mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels over, 3-light to bay 2 and 4-light bay 4, both rectangular-leaded;
3-light horizontal-bar casement window to bay 1, set lower; and similar windows to attic above bays 2, 3 and 4, that to
bay 2 a 1985 addition, set into swept dormers: boarded door in heavy frame to lower bay 3. Outshut to rear. Interior
not seen, but reported is a cross-passage 3-room plan; one post-and-truss inner wall with wattle and daub, a 4-panelled
chamfer-beam ceiling; in west gable large fireplace with brick-lined oven and a curving chamber; roof frame has one
smoke-blackened jointed cruck truss, one post and truss-frame. (VAG Reports, SRO unpublished, November 1976 and
November 1984).

Listing NGR: ST3669617707

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26308850

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)