Description

List description amended on 24 Jan 2011

ROCKBOURNE

1830/14/22 ROCKBOURNE
30-SEP-1964 (West side)
Bourne House

(Formerly listed as:
ROCKBOURNE
BROOK COTTAGE)

II
A timber-framed cottage with brick infill and some rebuilding, thatch roof.

DESCRIPTION: The cottage comprises three bays and a smoke/passage bay, and is one and a half storeys in height. It has a thatched roof with a large thatch hood in front of the right hand of the centre small bay. There is a three-light casement in each bay, and a three-light eyebrow dormer window in the left hand of the centre bay. The roof is half-hipped with a large ridge stack above the porch.

HISTORY: The cottage dates to the C16 with some alterations from the C18.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
Bourne House is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* A vernacular building in traditional materials, dating to the C16, with a significant proportion of original fabric.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26634148

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)