Description

TL 2659-2759 ELTISLEY THE GREEN
(North Side)

11/126 No. 18 (The Old
Post House)

GV II

House. Late C15 with early C17 and C19 and C20 additions and alterations.
Timber-framed with C20 pargetted cement render, plain tile roofs hipped to
left hand with gablet. Single storeyed open hall and service bay to right
hand with jettied crosswing to left hand. (qv Manor Farmhouse and Green
Farmhouse). Chimney stack with baking oven inserted into cross passage, and
hall and service bay chambered over in C17. Single storey extension to right
hand gable, C17, timber-framed and pantiled. Ridge stack and side stack to
left hand with rebuilt upper courses. C18 panelled door in original cross
passage position, four ground floor, and four attic and first floor C20
casement windows. Interior: Exposed timber-frame, and floor frames showing
clearly C17 rebuilding, insertions and original openings. One three-light
diamond mullioned window in crosswing with shutter groove. Side purlin roofs
with rafters over the hall smoke blackened.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p95, mon. 9, plate 98

Listing NGR: TL2714559796

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616309

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (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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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas