Description

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SO 84 SW
3/118

HANLEY CASTLE CP
1, Cross Hands

(Formerly listed as Cross Hands Cottage (opposite Malvern Road turn) A 440 (east side)

25.3.68

GV
II
House. C17 with C19 additions and C20 alterations. Timber-framing with brick infill and shingle roof. T-plan. Two storeys. One-bay main range is of brick and appears to be entirely of C19 with C20 alterations. Doorway at right. The cross-wing, at the right, is of exposed timber-framing in irregular square panels. The framing of the front wall has been partly replaced in the mid-C20. It is of one bay and has long straight tension braces rising from the sill to the jowled heads of the principal posts. The exposed truss has vertical struts between tie-beam and collar, and a king strut with smaller collar above. Chimney stack projects from right-hand wall of wing.

Interior: not accessible at time of survey (May 1986) but main range said to contain no framing.

Listing NGR: SO8378842554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26632546

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)