Description

SU 4724 TWYFORD QUEEN STREET
(south side)

11/16 Embessy & Corner-
ways (formerly listed as
Embessy Cottage and
GV II Cornerways)

House, now pair of cottages. C15 and C16 refronted C18. Timber-frame core
encased in brick, old plain tile roof. 3 bay, single storey and attic
building with early C19 2 storey, 2 bay wing added to front at right end.
C18 4-panel door in solid frame to left of centre under flat head. C19 2
and 3-light casements, with 2-light flat-roofed dormer on roof in each bay.
Stack on ridge to left of door. Wing has C20 door near junction and C20 2-
light casement with on 1st floor C18 small 3-light headed casement. Gable
end has scantling timbers and leaning gable stack, and stack below ridge on
junction of roofs. Inside remains of upper cruck frame with most of crucks
exposed and smoke blackened roof timbers.

Listing NGR: SU4795724400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26589238

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)