Description

WISTANSTOW

SO48SW CHENEY LONGVILLE
1943-1/5/135 Cheney Longville House and attached
outbuilding range

GV II

House. C17, with alterations and additions dated 1767. Further
later alterations including those dated 1952. Dressed stone,
rear partly rendered and whitewashed. Tile roofs. Various
stacks. Central hall plan with gabled cross wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Irregular fenestration includes
3-light casements to left gable and canted bay to ground floor
right. Recessed centre has single-storey entrance section with
datestone 1952. Above are moulded stone string courses along
the sides of the wings and across the centre. Left gable has
datestone DTL 1767.
Left end is a 2-window range of 3-light casements and bay with
a central pediment dormer with lunette window. Roof to rear of
this wing is hipped.
Rear has irregular fenestration, some C20, and includes a
gable to left, large timber-framed dormer to centre right and
external stack to far right.
Right end includes a leaded cross window and has C20 1st floor
link to outbuilding range.
INTERIOR: hall has large open fireplace with bressumer. Hall
passage has dado panelling and panelled doors. Drawing room
has full height mid C18 raised and fielded panelling.
Staircase hall has plastered cross-beams and the staircase has
turned balusters and ramped handrail. First floor re-ordered
but retains heavy, mostly plastered, bridging beams with deep
chamfers. Attic has roof truss of heavy scantling by
timber-framed dormer and the heavy roof structure with through
purlins of the wing dated 1767 includes a re-used moulded beam
dated 1683.
The outbuilding range, now partly domestic accommodation, is
also C17/early C18 with walls of square panel timber-framing
and coursed rubblestone.

Listing NGR: SO4207784784

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559871

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)