Description

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 9612 (East side) 12/10 No. 40 (Timbers) 30.11.66 (Formerly listed as Timbers) GV II House. Early/mid C16 N part, S part rebuilt mid C17, hipped S extension late C18, restored with N extension 1931. Timber frame on brick sill with red brick infill panels. Roughcast N gable. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, attic and cellar building facing W with single-storeys extensions to S and N. Older N part, with attic and cellar, is an original unheated parlour block serving an open hall to S replaced in C17 by a similar front-jettied 2 storeys block of matching floor and roofheight. W front has exposed timbers on both floors and 2 long flush 5-light casement leaded windows on each floor. N half has heavier wide-spaced uprights and heavy bull-nosed joists. Curious junction of jetty beams at middle of building. S part has slighter timbers and plain squared joists. Bottom plate of wall extends to S of centre where hall originally stood (and the best face of S wall of the N block is on S, to face into the former hall). Large external S gable chimney has had a flue added to serve the upper floor of the S part. Later N gable chimney to serve the parlour. This has chamfered and stopped joists and axial floor beam, stair trap trimmed by joists in NE corner, and remains of wall painting c.1600 below the rear staircase with lozenge geometric painted panels with fleurs-des-lis. (RCHM Typescript: Davis (1980) No.10).

Listing NGR: SP9655512675

External Links

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)