Description

ST 9958 POTTERNE ROOKE'S LANE

14/166 No 3 (Church House)

GV II

House, c1600, heavily restored in later C19, rubble stone with
ashlar dressings and fishscale-banded plain tile roofs. West end
stack. 2½ storeys, 2-gabled front with central projecting 2-
storey ashlar gabled porch. Porch has coped gable and ball
finial, hollow-moulded recessed mullion windows, one 3-light with
hood mould to first floor front, blank 2-light to each side.
Dripcourse over flush moulded doorway. Main house has entirely
C19 fenestration, 3-light ovolo-moulded with hood mould and
relieving arch to main floors each side, 3-light chamfered with
hoodmould to attics. On right side date plaque P W / I V M V /
1614. West end extension with brick gable end.
Parallel rear range with end stacks appears mostly C19 but is
remodelling of earlier building. Three sharp gables, C19 mullion
windows generally with 2-storey ashlar bay window, but 18-pane
stair-light probably C18. Single storey range to right of main
front with stone slates, half-hipped to West. C20 door with hood
on brackets and renewed timber-mullion windows.

Listing NGR: ST9961358496

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535809

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living