Description

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SU74NE CRONDALL
ITCHELLANE
1687-0/12/10013 The Pit

II

Cottage. Circa late C18 or early C19. Rendered chalk; brick nogging to exposed roof trusses
at gable ends. Red brick lateral stack at rear and brick gable-end stack. Longstraw thatched roof
with half-hipped gable ends and eyebrow dormers. PLAN: 2-bay plan with central direct entry
at front into the larger right hand room, which is heated from a lateral stack at the back. The
smaller left bay was probably originally unheated and is divided axially, having a smaller room
at the front and what is now the kitchen at the back with a stack added on the left end wall and
a doorway at the rear; the straight staircase against the rear wall rises from the kitchen.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Symmetrical 2-window front. Small 2-light casements with
glazing bars, attic windows in roof with eyebrow heads. Central doorway with plank door and
gabled open porch with tiled canopy on thin wooden posts. At rear plank door on right and
lateral stack on left with tiled set-offs, tiled oven projection and rendered fuel store with tiled
lean-to roof. Small brick stack on gable-end. INTERIOR: Much of the original carpentry and
joinery survives including plank doors, exposed ceiling beams andjoists, brick fireplace with
oven and timber lintel, straight staircase and rooftrusses with long curved braces rising up to the
principals and with short ties in the spandrels.

Listing NGR: SU8020849570

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537364

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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