Description

WOKINGHAM WILTSHIRE ROAD
SU 8168 NW
(West side)
18/59 No.6 (Tudor Corner)
and No.96 (The Cottage)
Rose Street
G.Y. II
Hall house with crosswing, now 2 houses. Late C14, extended C17,
altered late C20. Timber framed, part painted render infill, part tile
hung; underbuilt in painted brick. Old tile gabled roofs. L-plan of
3 x 2 framed bays, formerly jettied on east and south, long cat-slide roof
at rear, gables on south. Former hall on west, now No.96 (The Cottage)
Rose Street. 2 storeys. Tall chimney on front roof slope of No.6 and
on righthand end, one chimney on left of No.96. Black painted plinth.
Rose Street front:- Tile hung double gable, C20 casement windows with
glazing bars. C20 entrance door to No.96 on left. Wiltshire Road front:-
Part timber frame visible with long tension brace on first floor.
Scattered C20 casements with glazing bars, one C19 sash window on
ground floor left hand. C20 planked entrance door to No.6 on right hand
approached by three, C20, brick steps. Interior:- C16 panelling in
drawing room of No.6. Large timber framed structure with heavy straight
braces on ground floor of No.6 in the northernmost bay, which may have
been an undercroft to workshop over. Collar purlin roof of 2 bays to
former crosswing, with 3 plain crown posts the centre one braced 2
ways. Simple coupled collar roof to former hall, heavily sooted.

Listing NGR: SU8147368808

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605283

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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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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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)