Description

RATTERY RATTERY
SX 76 SW

6/55 Church House Inn

9-2-61
GV II*

Public house, originally the church house. C16. Roughcast stone rubble.
Bitumenised scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Eight bay, long rectangular
plan originally two storeys with stair turret on south west corner, two lateral
stacks on north side and gable end stacks. Blocked central doorway on north
side. Later outshut on north side. Two storeys. Long approximately three
window range. C19 and C20 two and three-light casements with glazing bars.
Two lateral chimney stacks to right and left on north front, left hand projecting
and with set-offs. Large later outshut on right of north side with mounting
block on front. Central north doorway is now blocked. To left of south front
on south west corner a rectangular projecting stair turret. Interior: Seven
axial beams, and one half beam in west end, all with step stops, unstopped beam
at each end. Inserted screen at east end forming small room with chamfered
head beam. It is a plank and chamfered muntin screen, the centre section is
missing and some of the planks have been taken out. Lateral fireplace rear
east end of north wall with chamfered timber lintel. Fireplace at west gable
end with massive stone lintel. Newel stairs with slate treads in stair turret
on south west corner, with doorframe at bottom with cranked head and with ovolo
and hollow moulding. Fireplaces on first floor probably blocked. Including
end trusses against the gable ends there are nine trusses with cranked feet
visible in first floor rooms. In the roof space they are clearly not smoke-
blackened and have morticed apices and morticed far cranked collars, some collars
missing, all side-pegged. No ridge piece, and three tiers of threaded purlins
intact, but rafters missing.

Listing NGR: SX7400861543

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534397

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair