Description

TL 57 SE WICKEN POND GREEN (North Side) 8/103 No. 7

GV II

Cottage, late C15, of original open hall plan with floored service end to right hand and parlour to left hand. In C17 the cottage was extended to right hand and a chimney stack and floor inserted into the open hall converting the house to one of lobby entry plan. Timber frame, plaster rendered with thatched roof of reed with a ridge stack of grouped shafts on a square base. One storey and attics. Three later gabled dormers and four windows, all C20. The doorway to the lobby entry is now blocked and the present entry is possibly near or close to the site of the C15 entry to the through passage. Inside the timber framing is visible in the original floored service end. The ceiling is C15 and of joists of large scantling laid flat and lodged on a rail in the walls, and tenoned to a spine beam. The joists are unmoulded, and the spine beam is stop chamfered and is supported on prick posts which form part of partition wall between service bay and open hall, and gable end of original house.

Listing NGR: TL5699270773

External Links

• Wikidata Q26419389

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version