Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552708

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)