Description

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ST 01 SW
2/275

WILLAND
Redgate

GV
II
Detached house. C17 with later alterations. Cob and stone mix, plastered, under gabled end slate roof. Formerly a three-room, cross-passage house, the higher-end to the left of the passage. The lower end has been dismantled and replaced by a single storey extension. External end stack heats inner-room; former axial stack backing onto passage (now on end stack) heats hall; brick shafts. Main range of two-storeys.

Front: two-window range, C19 four-light casement windows to first floor, a similar window to the ground floor, with an inserted glazed door with adjacent windows to the left. Two later brick raking buttresses. Left-hand end with tiny window (possibly to light former newel standing forward of stack). Small wooden, partially glazed porch.

Interior: an ovolo-moulded plank and muntin screen of high quality with bulbous stops stands between hall and inner room. Ogee moulded ceiling beams. Hall chamber with fireplace with moulded stone lintels. Four upper crucks with trenched purlins, and evidence of lapped notched collars now gone; diagonal ridge-piece also missing.

Reference: roof not inspected and above description taken from report of Commander E H D Williams (1980) in RCHM.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462484

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)