Description

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MEDMENHAM HENLEY ROAD
SU 88 SW
8/10000 Lodge Hill Cottage
II
House. Early/mid C16, remodelled in early/mid C17 with later
alterations and mid C20 extensions. Timber-framing with C17-C18 brick
nogging exposed to front and right gable; early C19 colarwashed
flemish bond brick to rear: gabled plain tile roof; C17 brick front
lateral stack finished with mid C20 brick and with tiled brick bread-
oven projection on clunch plinth to front. Mid C20 extensions of
English bond brick with tile-clad first floor to rear right, gabled
plain tile roofs and brick stacks.
PLAN: original 3-unit plan with central open hall remodelled in
early/mid C17 with inserted hall floor and stack; mid C20 rear
extensions make U-plan. 2 storeys. 2-window, garden front has mid C20
leaded casements. Similar casements elsewhere, and main entry in rear
left wing. Right gable end has C17 brick quoining to flint rubble wall
on ground floor.
INTERIOR: room to right has chamfered joists and transverse beam with
sawn-off pegs for wattle and daub partition, probably C18. Former hall
to centre has large open fireplace with C17 brick, chamfered bressumer
and fine reset Charles I fireback. Room to left has C17 joists, with
sawn-off tenons from former partition to axial beam. 3-bay smoke-
blackened roof with windbracing to clasped purlins and collar trusses
with central upright to tie beam, jowled wall posts and queen-post
truss to right gable.

Listing NGR: SU8035484532

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26517942

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)