Description

CROSTON GRAPE LANE
SD 41 NE
8/79 No. 35
17.4.67
- II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 or earlier, altered. Cruck frame with cladding
of handmade brick, rendered, thatched roof with brick gable chimneys.
Three bays, with modern extensions to rear and at right end. Gable to
road. One and a half storeys; door at left end, four 3-light casements at
ground floor and dormer casements of 2 and 4 lights in the eaves.
Interior: 2 full cruck trusses, the 1st with large cambered tie-beam (part
severed), wattle-and-daub infilling, a central post with mortices for
lintels of 2 doors, and windbracing; the other similar but with angle
struts, small dorsals, no windbracing, and punched wedge-shaped carpenter's
marks; the rear wall, at the junction with the addition, has a timber
wallplate with vacant housing for posts and wattling, indicating that the
house was formerly entirely timber-framed.

Listing NGR: SD4928718257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457309

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)