Description

UPPER SAPEY -
SO 66 SE
815-/5/10006 Church Cottage
- II
House, formerly a school. Circa early C18. Red brick, English garden wall bond, rendered at
front; front centrepiece Flemish bond brick. Rendered brick and timber-framed rear wing.
Plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves courses. Brick gable end stacks. PLAN:
2-room plan. Larger left room, hall and smaller parlour to right, both heated from gable end
fireplaces. Direct entry into front of hall and dog-leg staircase at rear of parlour, behind which
is shallow unheated 2-storey wing. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front
with broad rendered corner pilasters and slightly advanced gabled brick bay at centre with C18
6-panel door in heavy bead-moulded frame and shaped canopy brackets supporting later gable
with carved vine bargeboards; 2-light attic casement above with triangular head in gable; C20
3-light windows to left and right in segmental arch openings. Rear west, 2 small ground floor
windows and timber-framed gable wing on left jettied out on first floor. INTERIOR: Various
C18 panelled and plank doors. Left room has large unchamfered cross-beam and unchamfered
joists; fireplace partly rebuilt and with plaster cove above. 2 large oak doorframes in central
partition. Right hand room has unchamfered axial beam and joists and altered fireplace. Early
Cl8 dog-leg staircase with rectangular balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. Closed
roof trusses with queen-posts, high collar and king-posts above. NOTE: Said to have been a
charity school and possibly endowed by John Addenbrook, rector of Upper Sapey 1683-1727.

Listing NGR: SO6831163654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565050

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)