Description

SD 57 SW
4/174
2.5.1968

PRIEST HUTTON
WHITEBECK LANE
Rockery Cottage

II

House, C17th. Pebbledashed rubble with steep slate roof. 2-unit plan with
gable stacks and former central entry, the entrance now being through a
modern extension against the left-hand gable. 2 storeys, 3 windows on
ground floor, 2 on 1st floor, all modern with plain reveals except left-hand
ground-floor window which is of 3-lights and rebated and chamfered with
mullions. Left-hand chimney cap is round, on a square base which is carried
on a wooden corbelled frame beneath the apex. At the rear are later lean-to
extensions and windows with plain reveals.

Interior. Left-hand room has former firehood bressumer and a C18th moulded
shouldered fireplace with moulded cornice mantel. Rising from this room is a
spiral stair of old wood. Visible in the partition wall between the 2 units
on the 1st floor is an upper cruck rising from a ground-floor ceiling beam.
It has a light collar and redundant halvings, which indicate re-use. The
eaves have been raised and the house is said to have been thatched within
living memory.

Listing NGR: SD5289073828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459106

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)