Description

SS 80 NW SANDFORD EAST VILLAGE

1/238 Lillybrook Cottage

II

Farmhouse converted to 2 cottages, now one house. C16 with C17 improvements, C18
and C20 alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble or cob stacks topped
with C19 brick; wheat reed thatched roof. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage
house facing south with former inner room at left (west) end. Interior rearranged
in C18 when divided into 2 cottages. Projecting end stacks and lateral hall stack
projecting to front. Continuous outshots across back wall (onto road). 2
storeys. 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements, 2 each side of roughly
central stack. 2 small first floor windows to right have thatch eyebrows over and
to left rise into eaves. C20 door to former passage right of centre and secondary
cottage door at left end. Left room (former inner room) has late C16-early C17
axial beam; chamfered with step stops. Hall fireplace has possibly reset C16 oak
lintel. Roof over hall apparently C18 trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8395405072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535839

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]