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

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