Description

COCKLEY CLEY
TF 70 SE
8/11 Cockley Cley Museum

- II

Former farmhouse, subdivided at one time, now museum of local history. C17
with a thorough C18 refurbishment. Timber frame mainly replaced with masonry.
Flint and brick masonry, the brickwork of random headers and keyed dressings.
Pantile roof. Lobby entrance type plan. 2 storeys. Facade with 4
symmetrically placed casement windows with glazing bars, of 3 lights beneath
segmental arches to ground floor and of 2 lights to upper floor. 2 boarded
doors beneath segmental arches, one opposite stack, the other to easternmost
bay. C17 off-centre axial stack with 2 interconnecting angled shafts. Fragment
of timber frame to rear showing the wall plate and wall posts of the original
single-storeyed house with attic. Original winding stair to entrance side
of stack. Doorway to upper floor with ogee and nicked chamfer stop. Eastern-
most bay is an C18 addition leaving the original timber framed end wall as
a partition.

Listing NGR: TF7948104093

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444970

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)