Description

SJ 40 NE CONDOVER C.P. CONDOVER

5/76 Condover Court (formerly
- listed as The Small House)
29.1.52
GV II

House. C14 or C15, re-modelled C17 with considerable later additions and
alterations, chiefly of 1876-7. Timber framed, partly of cruck construction,
with plaster and late C19 red brick infill, machine tile roofs. Hall of
4 framed bays with cross-wing projecting to right; late C19 additions at
right-angles to rear on left of hall range and behind cross-wing. 2 storeys;
framing: largely late C19, close-set vertical posts with middle rails and
short curved tension braces but massive true cruck truss with curved tension
braces exposed to gable end of hall range; fenestration all late C19,
2 full gabled dormers to left and right of hall range with wooden mullioned
and transomed windows on ground floor, 2 to left and one of 5 lights to
right of central lean-to timber framed porch (also 1876-7); cross-wing
has 5-light wooden mullion window to jettied first floor and a mullioned
and transomed bay window to ground floor. 2 late C19 brick ridge stacks with
dentilled bands to hall range and a prominent moulded brick lateral stack
with datestone "R.C/1876-7" on right wall of cross-wing. Interior: not
inspected but known to contain 3 true cruck trusses, 2 with Alcock apex
type L2 and one (exposed externally to gable end of hall range) with apex
type V. Alcock (1981), p.143.

Listing NGR: SJ4942806053

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470200

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)