Description

BUCKERELL BUCKERELL
SY 10 SW

5/103 Pleasant View and Witch Farm
- Cottage

II

2 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: 3 room and cross passage plan, lower end to the left (Pleasant View), 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: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:4 window front. Pleasant View, to the left, has
a porch to left of centre with an artificial thatched roof and 3 first floor and 2
ground floor 2-light small pane C19 casements. Witch Farm Cottage has a C20 gabled
porch to left of centre, and 4 first floor and 2 ground floor 2-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. Pleasant View 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: ST1218600518

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618479

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record