Description

TRING RURAL STATION ROAD
SP 8915
(West side)
Long Marston
8/144 Rose and Crown Cottage
-
GV II
House. C16 N crosswing. C17 taller hall range, later C17 S service wing.
A public house up to 1917. Timber frame plastered and lined as ashlar.
Rear part of crosswing dark weatherboarding, and E front stuccoed brick
on ground floor. Red tilehung S gable. Steep old red tile roofs. An
L-plan house with long 3-bays 1 1/2-storeys N crosswing, short higher
2-storeys hall range of a single bay and 1½ storeys S service wing of 2
unequal bays. Lobby entry into service wing - probably originally into a
cross-passage behind hall fireplace. Stair in rear outshut, behind
chimney. Service end chimney and fireplace a later insertion backing
onto old stack and blocking passage. Irregular E front with 2 linked
3-light casement windows to LH part with gabled dormer at eaves and
gabled tiled open porch to plank door. 2 storeys central part has
projecting stuccoed plinth and 3-light casement over twin flush sash
windows to hall with 6/6 panes. 2-light window in gable of lower W
crosswing and 3-light casement off centre on ground floor. Lean-to C19
painted brick beer-store against N side under a catslide tiled roof.
Side wall chimney to N wing C20 replacing diagonal fireplace and chimney
at NE corner. Interior has chamfered cross-beams with ogee stops to wing
and chamfered and stopped timber lintel to open fire in hall. Wing has
clasped purlin roof with collar trusses cut through as if floor inserted
in C17, when hall range presumably rebuilt in place of an older open
hall. Straight braces to cambered tie-beams. Straight wind braces to
single purlin in each slope. Rear part of wing a floored stable and
still weatherboarded, as is one remaining bay of outbuilding formerly
enclosing a yard to W of house.

Listing NGR: SP8956915720

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626280

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]