Description

RECTORY LANE
1.
5387
(north side)
Bristow Cottage
TQ 2341 4/34
TQ 2441 5/34
II
2.
Circa 1630. Formerly called School Cottage and built as a school "for the teaching
of 2 poor children therein gratis" by the Rev John Bristow who was Rector of
Charlwood from 1615-1637. Timber-framed cottage with painted brick infilling on
base of Charlwood stone, 2 bays with ½ bay at end. One storey and attics. Square
framing with straight tension braces. Jowls. Horsham slab roof half-hipped at one
end. Two casement windows and one modern dormer. The interior contains a clasped
purlin and wind brace roof and the text of the Ten Commandments painted on a roundel.
Originally there was an end smoke bay and the bedroom was reached up a ladder. (See
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 41. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of
Charlwood Houses" p 29).

Listing NGR: TQ2399841288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540630

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)