Description

BRADNINCH
ST 00 SW
8/1 Nos 1 & 2 Bathaies
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- II
2 cottages, originally a single farmhouse. C17 with later alterations. Cob, stone
plinth, plastered, under gabled-end and half-hipped slate roofs. Formerly probably
a 2 or 3-room, through-passage plan with 2 rear wings, both of which retain old
work. External newel staircase in angle formed by main range and right-hand wing
(which is the older of the 2 wings). Left-hand end stack; axial stack to the
right of, and backing on to, the through-passage; end stack to right-hand wing,
lateral stack to inner face of left-hand wing; all with brick shafts. 2 storey
throughout.
Front: 3 window range, upper windows all of 3 lights with old frames, that to the
left with C20 1-pane casements, the others with C19 casements with glazing bars;
two 3-light casement windows below, and 2 doorways, that on the right giving in to
the passage. Right-hand wing, roof ridge much lower than main range; 2 ground-
floor windows, one (of 2 lights) with C17 chamfered timber frame and mullion, the
other with chamfered frame. One 3-light window to 1st floor with C19 frame. C20
2-light window to rear end. The other wing, roof ridge at same level as that of
main range, with one 4-light C18 or early C19 frame; the other 4 windows with C20
casements. Newel, squared externally with small 2-light window, jambs and mullions
chamfered.
Interior: to No. 1 (the right-hand cottage). Several C17 door frames survive, that
to the Hall from the passage with a chamfered stone surround; chamfered timber
lintels and frames to rear door of Hall (to wing) and to 2 upstairs doors. 3
planked doors (possibly C18 or earlier survive). 3 cross beams to Hall, chamfered
with hollow step stops. Fireplace has stone jambs and timber lintel with ovolo
mouldings. 3 unstopped chamfered beams to right-hand wing. Roof ceiled and not
inspected. Large end fireplace, and chamfered beams survive in No. 2 (not
inspected internally). C19 iron pump in rear yard of No. 1.

Listing NGR: ST0108804132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611647

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)