Description

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH WATERS LANE
NZ 10 NE AND SEDBURY (south side)

6/147 Crabtree House

GV II

Disused house. Late C17 with later alterations. Rubble and cobbles,
pantile roof. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Central doorway with
ashlar quoined chamfered surround and 6-panel door, hinged vertically in
centre to open around inserted staircase. On either side, blocked 2-light
mullion windows, and beyond to left and right inserted square window
openings with ashlar projecting sills and deep lintels, formerly with sash
windows each with 30 small panes. First floor: in centre, 2 blocked 2-light
mullion windows, shorter than those on ground floor, and flanking them 2
inserted square window openings as before. Raised verge to left. End
stacks, that to left external and with added brick chimney from inserted
bedroom fireplace, that to right rebuilt in brick and now serving separate
cottage to right. Interior: stop-chamfered beams; ground-floor mullion
windows now cupboards, and later ground-floor windows have deep board
shutters; in ground-floor room to right, cast-iron range in large inglenook
with spere and wooden seat within fireplace; 2 ground-floor doors of 2
fielded-panels. The house originally was of through-passage plan, but the
rear door has been blocked and the plan changed by the formation of a
central staircase, probably at the same time the eaves were raised.

Listing NGR: NZ1676805291

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460394

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)