Description

SU 89 SW FINGEST AND LANE END HIGH STREET
(LANE END)

4/47 Bottom House

II

House. C17, with possible traces of earlier building, extended to left
early-mid C18, altered late C18 and later. Brick with some flint in
ground floor walls. Old tile roofs, rebuilt brick chimneys between
right bays and to left side. Low central part of 1½ bays with taller
flanking gabled bays and late C18 extension to rear. Left bay is of
2 storeys and attic with first and second floor band courses, the
upper band with dentils. C20 canted bay window to ground floor, 3-light
barred wooden casement with gauged head to first floor, 2-light casement
to attic. Blocked doorway with gauged head to right. Centre part has
C20 barred wooden window to ground floor, and C20 door recessed to left.
Right bay is of 2 storeys with band course at eaves level, and 3-light
barred wooden casements with segmental heads. C18 rear extension
is of vitreous header brick. Interior: some timbering in cross walls of
central section, that to left of centre with braces that may be the upper
parts of cruck blades; more timber framing in right end wall; stop-chamfered
spine beams in left bay.

Listing NGR: SU8090991677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616937

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)