Description

SJ 46 NE TARVIN C.P. CHURCH STREET (East Side)

2/49 Church Cottages.

22/10/1952

GV II

Formerly farmhouse, now a house: early C16 with extensive later C20 restoration. Timber framed on plinth with rendered concrete block repairs. Welsh slate roof and a ridge brick chimney. 2-room plan with cross-passage behind the stack. 1-storey and attic, 4-bay front. 13 by 2 tall timber panels remain (almost close-studding with middle rail). Left end bay has had timber replaced. Late C20 casements with glazing bars, including a line of 3 in gabled dormers. Door in 2nd bay not quite in original position. To rear some early timberwork in central dormer. Interior: Hall to right of entrance has inglenook with chamfered bressumer, above which is an original timber-framed fire hood. The ceiling beams and joists are a C17 insertion into an open hall. There are remains of 3 full cruck trusses of which the southernmost is nearly complete. The cruck blades are arched and have a tiebeam, collar and sprockets.

Church House (q.v.) was the parlour wing added to this farmhouse in Elizabethan times.

Listing NGR: SJ4913166983

External Links

• Wikidata Q26599055

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990