Description

The following building shall be added:- FROXFIELD SU 72 NW COCKSHOTT LANE 9/10003 Barnsley Cottage & attached Workshops GV II

Cottage & attached workshops. 1908-9 by Geoffrey Lupton as his home and workplace. White painted brick; upper cruck construction. Tiled roofs with tall brick chimney stacks; half-hipped to cottage and workshop rear, pitched with deadlights to workshop front range. Cottage - 2 storeys. T-shaped plan. Vernacular style. Irregular fenestration; mostly segmental-arched 3-light casements with glazing bars. Entrance on left-hand return with part-glazed door. Brick mordillion eaves cornice continues around the cottage. On the rear elevation a full height chimney breast and tall stack with a gabled dormer to left. Interior has wide (15" & more) hand-cut polished oak floor boards and plank doors, all with nails, latches and strap hinges handmade in Gimson's and Lupton's workshops. Sitting room with bressummer to large open fireplace and built-in wooden seat. Beneath a trapdoor in front of the fire, a concrete bath. Kitchen with quarry tiled floor having a hand-crafted oak trapdoor to water tank beneath. Door opens onto polished oak spiral stair. The cottage is a good example of Lupton's Arts & Crafts philosophy and fine craftsmanship. Lupton was a furniture maker, joiner and builder who had trained under Ernest Gimson and built Bedales hall and library to Gimson's designs. In 1923 Edward Barnsley, furniture maker & architect, took the tenancy of the workshop and moved into the cottage in 1926. Barnsley lived and worked here as a designer craftsman until his death in 1987. The Barnsley archive is housed here and the furniture he made for his home. Workshops - L-shaped plan. Single storey front range; 2 storey to to rear. Mostly similar external appearance to cottage. Expanid by Edward Barnsley and c1958-61 by his son Jon. Functional interior with timber trusses and fireplace.

Listing NGR: SU7310326712

External Links

• Wikidata Q26405517

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Recommended Books

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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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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)