Description

Braughing village
TL 3925 BRAUGHING GREEN END
(west side)

9/18 No 19
(The Gables)
22.2.67

GV II

House. Late medieval open hall house with 2 crosswings, extended
to rear and altered C17 and c1700, altered in late C18 or early
C19. Timber frame with close-studding exposed on 1st floor at
front, roughcast elsewhere. Ground floor front and below jetties
rebuilt in plastered brickwork. Steep old red tile roofs. 2
very large external red brick chimneys to S side of S wing (for
parlour and kitchen to rear, and a large central chimney where
hall joins N crosswing. E front has one and a half storeys
centre with 3-light flat topped dormer on the eaves, 3 light
leaded casement to ground floor and plank door to right. 2 2-
storeys gabled crosswings with tension braces to former jetties
now underbuilt. 3-light leaded flush casement windows to each
floor of each wing. Tall chimneys with square shafts, those to
central stack set diagonally. Early C17 3-light diamond
mullioned window to staircase in extended S wing. Framing of
extended N wing has straight tension braces with clasped purlin
roof c1700. Lean-to rear extension and jetties underbuilt c1800.
(RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3934225339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584004

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback