Description

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD
SP 9612
(West side)
12/20 No. 39
- (Lace Cottage)
GV II
House. Late medieval cruck framed house altered in C16/early C17, with
late C17 added storeyed S parlour bay, house refronted in brick with
heightened front eaves c.1800, restored 1982. Timber frame roughcast
with painted brick front wall. Red machine made tile roof with higher
and steeper part to S bay, and hipped N end extending to lower eaves at
N. A 2-bays formerly single-storey cruck framed house facing E,
comprising a hall and narrower N parlour bay. Former service bay
probably replaced by new S parlour block in C17 of 2 storeys, cellar and
attic with 1 1/2 storeys SW rear service wing. N parlour bay adapted to
storeyed gabled crosswing with axial floor joists c.1600. Floor inserted
in hall with chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists probably
contemporary with new S parlour block and massive chimney formerly with
oven, with fireplaces to hall, S parlour, and rear wing. Front wall
renewed in brick with higher eaves and new front roofslope propped off
original but front-wall crucks removed and uniform roof obliterated
front gable of N parlour bay. E front now in 2 unequal parts. Longer N
part has 2 first floor windows and 3 ground floor windows, 2 to left of
a plank door. Recessed 3-light small-paned casement windows, with
cambered arches to the ground floor openings. A N gable external chimney
with a single-flue. The taller S part has a single recessed sash window
with 5/10 panes of crown glass on first floor over a projecting
rectangular oriel window with small panes, external folding shutters,
and a canopy extending over a panelled door up steps. Opening below
oriel lights cellar with an arched vaulted brick extension under the
hall. S gable plastered with a 3-light casement attic window. 1½ storeys
short rear wing with swept dormer. In rear outshut foot of central cruck
exposed standing on a large stone with chalk packing. Cruck blade
continues up with spur-tie, king-post and convex tension braces each
side. Fragment of rear-wall blade of S cruck truss survives with
straight wind-brace to rear purlin. Rear-blade in N gable stops as if
cut-off to E of rear purlin, and wallplate of crosswing jointed into it
as a later adaptation. Closed truss in middle has remains of wattle and
daub infill in roofspace, and supporting the inserted floor a crossbeam
with expanded end jointed into a jowled post inserted in front wall as
part of secondary adaptation of N bay as a crosswing. The house of a
succession of village craftsmen in C17 and C18. The S part was used as a
shop. (RCHM Typescript: Davis(1980) No. 6).

Listing NGR: SP9651212575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26346745

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)