Description

COMBE THE GREEN
SP4115 (West side)
17/77 Green Close
GV II
House. Late medieval. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; ridge
stack of stone finished in brick. Hall house remodelled as 3-unit lobby-entry
plan in C17. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Large C20 gabled porch. Timber lintels
over C20 casements, some with brick dressings. Late C19/early C20 rear ranges of
rendered brick with plain tile roof and brick lateral stacks. Interior:
stone-flagged floors. Late medieval 3-bay house left of stack has raised
chamfered cruck, with arch bracing to collar and trenched purlins; to left, a
late medieval closed truss with raised cruck and simple mortices for joists of
former chamber floor in left bay. Early C17 stop-chamfered beams of inserted
floor, and unusual stop-chamfered heavy wood surround to open fireplace. To
front of lobby are flat-laid joists and to right heavy stop-chamfered beams with
flat-laid joists; 3-bay collar-truss roof above.

Listing NGR: SP4117015831

Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990