Description

SP2404-2504 KENCOT 8/230 Manor Farm Cottage and 12/09/55 Wychwood (Formerly listed as Kencot Farm Cottage and Cottage 25yds S of Manor Farmhouse)

GV II Two houses. Wychwood, to left, is early C17 with C20 extension; Manor Farm Cottage is late C18-early C19. Coursed rubble limestone with slobbered pointing, stone slate roof and rubble stone chimneys to ridge. 2 storeys and attic. Wychwood has one C17 bay with hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows and Tudor hoodmoulds, the lower window of 4 lights, the upper of 3-lights. C20 gabled roof dormer with 2-light barred wooden casement. To left is a doorway with C20 glazed false door, C20 wooden lintel and traces of former gabled hood. Left end extended by one bay C20 with single- and 2-light windows in matching style, and gabled wooden hood over half-glazed door. Interior of original bay has ground floor plaster ceiling frieze of early C17 date, with vine trail, and traces of similar ornament to ceiling. Old winder stair on axis with stack has old board doors with latches and butterfly hinges. Roof timbers partly renewed. Manor Farm Cottage has dressed stone quoins and gable verge. 3 bays of paired barred wooden casements, renewed C20, with flat stone arches. C20 leaded single light to right of door; small catslide roof dormer to left with top-hung wooden casement. To centre is a flush-panelled door with stone open pediment hood on shaped scroll brackets. Gable end to road has barred wooden casements with wooden lintels. Small lean-to extensions to rear of whole range.

Listing NGR: SP2529804288

External Links

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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