Description

DEDDINGTON
SP43SW HEMPTON
1716-0/2/10001 Folly Cottage and
Jeffcoates

GV II

Pair of houses. Circa early and later C17, with later alterations. Stone rubble. Plain tile roofs I with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN : Pair of adjoining 2-room plan houses with central entrances. Folly Cottage, on the left, was built in about the early C17; Jeffcoates was added on the right later in the C17. There is evidence that the two houses were connected by stairs from the right-hand ground floor room of Folly Cottage to the cellar under the left room of Jeffcoates. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Two 3-window ranges with C20 3-1ight casements on the ground floor and C20 2-1ight casements on the first floor. Two C20 gabled dormers. C20 plank doors; Folly Cottage to left has C20 open porch and oven projecting on left. At rear [south] C20 windows and dormers, Jeffcoates to left has C20 conservatory . INTERIOR: Folly Cottage: left room has large chamfered axial beam with hollow-step stops, chamfered joists with similar stops and large stone fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, large timber lintel and oven. Right-hand room has rough cross-beam and unchamfered joists. C20 staircase. The feet of straight principal rafters visible in chambers. Jeffcoates: Right-hand room has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops and large stone fireplace with cambered chamfered lintel with cyma stops and remains of an oven: Left room has chamfered axial beam with step stops. Wide central passage has roughly chamfered axial beam. Joinery includes winder stair, and some C17 -18 plank doors. Left chamber has chamfered axial beam with step stops. Cellar under left end has old joists and curved wall at gable-end where stairs led to Folly Cottage. C20 roof structure.

Listing NGR: SP4445131777

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26410899

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)