Description

IDE
SX 89 SE

1/57 Fordlands

- II

House. Circa early C17. Whitewashed and rendered, probably cob and stone rubble;
wooden shingle roof, hipped at left end, gabled at right end; rendered stacks, 1 at
left end, 1 axial.
3 room and through passage plan, the inner room at the right end unheated and used
for storage, the hall stack backing onto the passage, the lower end room heated from
the left end stack. 2 stairs, 1 against the front wall of the hall, 1 against the
rear wall of the lower end room. Small single-storey C20 lean-to at rear.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with a wide 4 plank front door with strap
hinges to left of centre leading into the passage. A separate entrance at the
extreme right gives access to the inner room. To the left of this doorway a 2-light
unglazed timber mullioned window has deep chamfered mullions. Ground floor window to
right of front door is a 2-light casement, 6 panes per light, other fenestration is
C20 metal casements, mosty in enlarged embrasures.
Interior: A moulded cross beam with scroll stops survives in the hall; the C20 grate
may conceal an earlier fireplace. The lower end room has 1 chamfered cross beam and
1 rough crossbeam. The roof is C20 throughout but the stumps of a jointed cruck
truss survive over the right hand end.

Listing NGR: SX8768190401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389299

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)