Description

BISHOPS TAWTON SS 62 NW 11/13 Kewsland 25.4.80 (formerly listed as Kewsland Cottages)

- II

House. C16, with C20 alterations. Roughcast colour-washed upper storey, exposed rubble stone to lower storey. Half-hipped thatch roof. Lateral stack to front with battered cap and drip, heightened in brick and projecting bread oven with slate cap. Tall rubble stack to rear with bread oven, brick shaft and weatherings. 3 room through passage plan. 3-window range in small openings of three 2-light casements, 6 panes per light. 2-light and 3-light hall window to left of stack, 4 panes per light. Slated lean-to canopy to through-passage doorway to right, with C20 single storey right-angled projection with lean-to roof at right end. Rear- side (facing road) has gabled thatched dormer to centre above two outshuts with slated lean-to roof. Interior not inspected but recorded in Alcock "Cruck Catalogue" as having 3 pairs of cruck blades with "H-type apex" and said to have oak panelling to hall.

Listing NGR: SS6005526206

External Links

• Wikidata Q26457568

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)