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Pithouse Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4915 / 51°29'29"N

Longitude: -1.0116 / 1°0'41"W

OS Eastings: 468720

OS Northings: 177410

OS Grid: SU687774

Mapcode National: GBR Q90.XS

Mapcode Global: VHDWL.FS20

Plus Code: 9C3WFXRQ+H9

Entry Name: Pithouse Cottages

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1261782

English Heritage Legacy ID: 361496

ID on this website: 101261782

Location: Trench Green, South Oxfordshire, RG4

County: Oxfordshire

District: South Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Mapledurham

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Caversham Thameside and Mapledurham

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


The following Building shall be added:-

MAPLEDURHAM

SU 67 NE _

9/10000 No 3 (Pithouse Cottages)

GV II

Former open-hall cruck - framed house. Dated to 1454/5, ceiled C17 and
later alterations C19 and C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub
infill; brick additions. Deep tiled roof, hipped to west end, gabled
to east, with 2 brick chimney stacks and gabled dormers, 1 to north,
2 to south. 1½ storeys. South front, 3 windows at ground floor and 3
doorways. Mostly 2 light 4-pane casements. Interior reveals 3 full
cruck trusses (eastern truss removed mid C20) forming a 3-bay house
with 2 bay hall serving as both hall and service and having a mantle
beam open truss, on the lower side of which the position of the smoke
louvre is visible; C17 chimney stack inserted at the chamber end to
serve both areas. Most of the original roof with curved windbraces,
remains under the later tiled one. At the upper end of the hall a
blocked window the diagonally set mullions survives half above and
half below an inserted C17 floor of wide boards and chamfered and
stopped spine beam.


Listing NGR: SU6872077410

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