Description

SX 39 SE ST GILES ON THE HEATH GRIDLEY CORNER

5/43 Linda Cottage
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II

Cottage. Probably late C17 with a remodelling of the C19 and C20 renovations.
Whitewashed plastered cob on stone rubble footings, roof slated at the left, thatched
to the right with gabled ends, axial stack rebuilt in stone and brick.
The original plan may have been a 2 room and through passage house with the
hall/kitchen to the left heated from a gable end stack (now the axial stack). The
right-hand room has been dismantled, possibly in the C19 when an unheated room,
smaller than the hall/kitchen was added at the left and the ceilings may have been
replaced. 2 service rooms under a lean-to roof may have been added to the rear at
the same time giving the present plan, 2-rooms wide and 1 1/2-rooms deep with the former
through passage at the right end of the range.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the thatched roof to the right with eaves
eyebrowed over a first floor window and brought down as a sloping roof carried on
stone cheeks forming an open-fronted porch to the right. Wide 3-plank front door
with a pegged doorframe (the rear door of the passage has been blocked but was
discovered during renovations). First floor window right is a 2-light casement,
probably of the C18, with some old glass.
Fenestration elsewhere is C19 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars. 2 shallow
buttresses to the front.
Interior Internal features mostly C20 and C19. Exposed joists of slender
scantling, C19 stair running to the rear of the axial stack, C20 grate said to
conceal earlier features. No access to apex of roof at time of survey (1985) but
roof trusses said to be pegged.

Listing NGR: SX3620090127

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398662

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)