Description

TQ 64 NW CAPEL TUDELEY LANE

1/306 Gate Cottage and Gate House

GV II

2 cottages, formerly a farmhouse. Late C16/early C17, some C19 and C20
modernisation. Timber-framed. The ground floor level is underbuilt with
brick, painted in Gate Cottage, Gate House front is probably C17 English bond
red brick with many burnt headers giving a banded appearance and including
some C20 brick patching and east end is mostly C20 brick. First floor level
is timber-framed and clad with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-
tile roof.

Plan: The building faces south and is set back from the road. Originally it
was a 3-room lobby entrance plan farmhouse. The right (east) end was the
unheated service end room. An axial stack between the other 2 rooms serve
back-to-back fireplaces but without an internal inspection it is not possible
to. determine which was the original parlour and kitchen. Now the house is
divided into 2 cottages with a new partition built across the centre room as
the party wall. Original lobby entrance is now blocked. Gate Cottage
occupies the left (west) part and Gate House the right (east) part.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and secondary outshots to rear.

Exterior: Irregular 3-window front of timber casement windows containing
rectangular panes of leaded glass. One or two may be old but most are C20
replacements. Gate House front doorway is right of centre and contains a C19
top-glazed 6-panel door. Gate Cottage has a C20 door in the outshot towards
the back of the left end wall. Main roof is gable-ended.

Interior: Not available for inspection at the time of this survey but late
C16/early C17 carpentry is suspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6179545584

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545807

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)