Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TM0495
11/10004

ATTLEBOROUGH
WHITEHORSE LANE
Lushers Cottage

II

House. c.1600 with later alterations and additions. Rendered timber-flame with corrugated iron
roof, hipped to right. Internal left end stack and later right end stack. 2-unit hall-house plan
with a pair of service rooms. 2 storeys, the floor probably inserted. 2-window range of 2-light
casements. On ground floor a 3-light and a 2-light wood mullion and transom window and
plank door to left within a lean-to porch. Further lean-tos on both ends. Fenestration of
casements to rear obscured by corrugated iron sheeting. INTERIOR. 3-bay frame of large
panel framing with queen post trusses. 2-bay hall with central truss having straight braces from
queen posts to collar. Original tie removed and jowelled posts cut back. Closed truss to service
end with cambered tie beam and, at ground floor, 2 service doorways probably in original
positions with plank doors. Arched braces to gable-end trusses. 1st floor probably inserted as
joists supported on triangular sectioned ledges and a reused spine beam with remains of a barred
chamfer stop at one end. Stack built with a number of unfired bricks.

Listing NGR: TM0423595128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26321505

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)