Description

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR WATER LANE (WEST SIDE)
TM 07 SW
3/131 Croft House and Rose
- Cottage
GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Early C16, stack inserted late C16, extended mid C17,
part cased mid C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered, part red brick
cased. Thatched roof, originally half hipped at both ends. Originally 4 bays
and probably part open with storeyed ends, 1 bay added to right or service
end. 1 storey and attic. Right bay is brick cased with a 3-light casement,
to left a lean-to outshut with a door, corrugated sheet roof. Stack to left
of centre is behind ridge. Left end attic 3-light part opening glazing bar
casement, lean-to outshut. Right gable end brick cased with an added stack
and a lean-to outshut. To rear upper end plastered, brick casing with a door
to original service bay, C20 2 and 3-light casements and dormers. Interior:
upper end stop chamfered cross axial binding beam on jowled storey posts,
otherwise frame concealed and not inspected. A blocked doorway in original
cross entry position. Original lower bay appears to have had a loft without a
partition to hall, traces of a 4-light diamond mullioned window in original
right end wall, reverse curved arched bracing in walling, stop chamfered wall
plates. Simple coupled rafter roof with faint traces of smoke blackening.
C17 bay has through tension bracing.

Listing NGR: TM0375474816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317908

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]