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BUCKERELL
BUCKERELL
Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage

(Formerly listed as Pleasant View and Witch Farm Cottage)

II

Two adjoining houses, formerly one house. Probably late C16/early C17. Rendered cob on stone footings; corrugated asbestos roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends; left end stack and axial stack with rendered shafts.

Plan: three room and cross passage plan, lower end to the left (Love Cottage), hall stack backing on to passage, unheated inner room. The passage has been converted to a service room and new entrances have been added.

Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical three:four window front. Love Cottage, to the left, has a porch to left of centre with an artificial thatched roof and three first floor and two ground floor two-light small pane C19 casements. Witch Farm Cottage has a C20 gabled porch to left of centre, and four first floor and two ground floor two-light small pane C19 casements.

Interior: The hall, in Witch Farm Cottage, has an open fireplace with chamfered Beerstone jambs and a chamfered lintel. A stair rises adjacent to the stack; intersecting moulded ceiling beams. The right hand (inner) room has a chamfered scroll-stopped crossbeam. Love Cottage has an open fireplace to the left hand (lower end) room with a chamfered timber lintel and a bread oven and a scroll-stopped ceiling beam.

Roof: Jointed cruck roof construction to Witch Farm Cottage, likely to extend across Pleasant View.

A traditional house with original interior features.

Listing NGR: ST1218400655

External Links

• Wikidata Q26618479

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)