Description

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SS 61 SE
1/23

CHAWLEIGH
Turnpike Cottage

(Formerly listed as Little Shanty)

GV
II
Cottage, said once to have been a toll-house. C18 with late C19 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Originally a one-room plan cottage facing south-west with projecting right (south-east) end stack. Late C19 extension set back from right end. Two storeys with single storey extension. Main block has single ground floor C20 fixed pane window with glazing bars. Roof is half-hipped to left and gable-ended to right. Left end has late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars at ground and first floor levels and right end has contemporary first floor casement and door behind C20 flat-roofed porch in angle of two ranges. Front of extension has C20 timber mullion and transom window containing panels of coloured Victorian leaded glass.

Interior of main block shows most original plain-finished carpentry detail. Roof
not inspected. Shown as Moortown Cottages on OS map.

Listing NGR: SS6993813117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595934

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)