Description

PIRTON CRABTREE LANE
TL 1431 (North side)

7/144 No. 2
- (Crabtree House)

- II

House. Late C16, altered later. Timber frame on black stuccoed sill,
roughcast. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, L-shaped house set
back from road facing E, with long, slightly lower, N crosswing. Stair
wing in rear angle, and large internal chimney at the junction of the
wings. Later internal S gable chimney. 2-bays hall range with chimney
probably built in former cross-passage. Crosswing has 2 rooms on each
floor with lobby between. Probably had lobby entrance by stack before
present 2 entrances formed. E front has a door with gabled tiled open
porch next LH corner and in middle of gable end of crosswing. 3 3-light
casement windows to 1st floor and small window in line with central
chimney with 4 conjoined tall diagonal shafts. 2 shafts to matching S
gable chimney. Interior has jowled posts, long straight tension braces
in walls and cross-walls. Clasped-purlin roofs. Plank doors with old
iron fittings. Segmental arched chamfered brick fireplace to chamber
over hall. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1467031746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630584

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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