Description

BURES HAMLET WATER LANE
TL 9034
(north side)
5/49 Water Lane Cottage
GV II
Water Lane is wrongly shown on the O.S. map as Brook Street. House. Circa
1600. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays
facing S, with internal chimney stack at right end of middle bay against rear
wall, and 2 C19 single-storey extensions to rear, roofed with red clay pantiles.
2 storeys. 3-window range of horizontally sliding sashes of 12 lights, and one
casement of 6 lights on the first floor. Ripped gablet at each end. C19 plain
boarded door in C20 gabled porch on right return wall. One diagonally arranged
shaft on chimney stack, behind ridge. Large wood-burning hearth of C16 bricks,
some reversed, with modern brickwork at sides. Heavy studding. Axial beams in
each bay, but otherwise each floor is different. In left bay, plain joists of
horizontal section with original trimmed stair trap. In middle bay, inserted
floor with joists of vertical section, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. In
right bay, joists plastered to soffits. Collar-rafter roof, unsooted, with
original partitions of wattle and daub.

Listing NGR: TL9037834089

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26415958

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy