Description

TL 25SE
4/113

LITTLE GRANSDEN
MAIN ROAD (east side)
No 12 (Brookfield Cottage)

GV
II
Two cottages, now one dwelling. Circa 1800, renovated. Timber framed rendered and thatched combed wheat reed roof. Red brick c.1800 ridge stack of two flues. When the cottage was recorded in 1950, there was a cement panel in the stack, incised with the initials TVW and the date 1853. One cottage to the road and the other on the east side, forming an L-plan. Two storeys. Two small modern casements to each storey. Doorway to front cottage at north end, now blocked. Present doorway now at the side.

Inside: each cottage had a kitchen and scullery at ground floor. A cupboard staircase off the scullery led to two first floor rooms. Back-to-back hearths with segmental arched heads to small hearth openings. The bread ovens at the side have been removed. Framing exposed. Varied scantlings and vacant peg and bracing trenches indicate reuse of some timbers.

RCHM: West Cambs Mon (11)

Listing NGR: TL2735554581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26421027

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version