Description

SE 35 NW
5/68
30.8.73

SCRIVEN
THE GREEN
(north side)
Old Scriven
Oak View with garden wall to front (formerly listed as "Oak View Farmhouse")

GV
II

House and garden wall to front. C16 and C17, early C19 refronting with C20
restoration. House: timber frame encased in light red brick, English bond,
C20 red tile roof; wall of coursed gritstone. 2 storeys, 4 bays, 3-cell
lobby-entry plan . 4-panel door under segmental header arch, bay 3. C20
small-pane side-sliding sash windows throughout, all with projecting stone
sills, 2 to left of door and one to right. The window above the entrance
probably a C20 insertion. The ground-floor windows have segmental header
arches; those to first floor are set below a timber wall plate visible at
the eaves. Long steeply pitched roof. Stone gable coping and brick stack
to left; C20 brick ridge stack bay 3. Left return: coursed gritstone and
sandstone rubble; right return: brick as front; timber tie beam at eaves
level. Interior not inspected at resurvey but recorded in 1979; substantial
remains of a timber-framed building survive, including rear aisle posts,
partition walls and soot-blackened common-rafter roof structure. The large
fireplace originally had a smoke hood replaced by a brick stack in the C17.
Front wall: approximately 2 metres high at junction with house, ramped down
to 4 courses across the front; rounded coping. The house was one of the 3
farms around the village green in the C16 (cf Home Farm, Corner Cottage). B
Hutton, "The Houses of Scriven Green", 1979.

Listing NGR: SE3481558473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542556

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)