Description

ST IPPOLLITTS MAYDENCROFT LANE
TL 1827 (North side)
Gosmore

8/52 No. 1
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GV II

House. Early C17, altered in C19. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor with
plaster panels, ground floor cased in red brick in Flemish-bond with
darker red dressings and dentilled course below mid-height rail of
timber frame. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys, 2-cells house at the
corner with High Street, facing S. 2 structural bays and a narrow W bay
overlapping the large formerly external gable chimney. Added external E
gable chimney with tumbled offsets and 2 flues. S front has 2 windows on
1st floor plus a small window under the eaves in the chimney bay. 2 main
windows on ground floor correspond to 2 on 1st floor and there is also a
window and 4-panel door between. Framing of 1st floor shows main posts
with long straight tension braces to these, and 2:6:6 panels. 2-lights
flush casement windows with small panes. Heavy jowled posts, clasped-
purlin roof. Gable end has long straight tension braces and collar.
Moulded mullioned 3-lights 1st floor window in W bay at rear.

Listing NGR: TL1876627054

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630881

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock