Description

BRAMPFORD SPEKE LAKE BRIDGE
SX 99 NW
3/11 Lake Bridge Cottage
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- II
Cottage, previously 3 cottages. C17 2-room with late C18 or early-C19 rear
extension. Cob, on stone plinth, with thatched gabled-end roof, and 2 end-stacks,
the right-hand stack external. 2 room and cross passage plan. 2 storeys. Window
openings altered (2 to each storey at front) and casements mostly C20. The
original front entrance (now blocked and marked by a small window) lay to the right
of the present doorway, and gave into the right-hand room. The present doorway is
a 2 storey projection over which the thatch continues. Interior: right-hand room,
with a heavy, single-chamfered beam with bar stop, and a fireplace with Thorverton
stone jambs, and a wooden lintel, chamfered with one surviving scroll stop. Left-
hand room with beams, chamfered with step stops, and a fireplace similar to the
other but with a bread-oven door. To the left of present stairs (over the division
between the 2 main rooms) at 1st floor level, a post and plaster partition. Roof:
main block with principal rafters, tenoned and side pegged, the apex above collars
with cob infill. North extension with side-pegged crossed principals and collars.

Listing NGR: SX9263997758

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389868

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)