Description

HENLEY MAIN ROAD
TM 15 SE
4/119 Willow Cottage and Endcot
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- II
2 houses, originally one. Early C16 with alterations of C17 and later. A 3-
cell open hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled
roofs with axial chimneys of red brick. C19 and C20 small-pane casements.
Willow Cottage has a C20 gabled porch with boarded entrance door. The house
was subdivided in C19; Willow Cottage comprises the hall and parlour of the
original house with a C19 2-storey extension co left, and Endcot is formed
from the service cell. Good unmoulded timber-framing is exposed throughout.
The front entrance doorway, now blocked, has a 4-centred arched head. The
roof of the open hall is complete, and of coupled-rafter type. Studwork is
quite widely spaced; some blocked and altered diamond mullioned windows. in
late C16 an unmoulded upper floor was inserted into the hall and a fireplace
was built in the cross-passage; the service rooms were united, probably
becoming a parlour. A continuous outshut was added to rear in C19, and some
C18 rope-pattern pargetting on the older rear wall is now visible within it.
Believed to have been formerly known as Rectory Farmhouse.

Listing NGR: TM1581850864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542946

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)