Description

TQ 53 NE SPELDHURST LANGTON ROAD (north side),
LANGTON GREEN
8/526 The Old Cottage

II

Former farmhouse. Early/mid C17, modernised with service additions circa
1930. Timber-framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with Flemish bond red
brick with decorative burnt headers. Framing above is hung with peg-tile.
Brick stacks and chimneyshafts; old stack has stone base and early brick in
the shaft. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: House faces south and has a 3-room lobby entrance plan. Axial stack
between the centre and right (east) rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. It
seems likely that the centre room was the kitchen and the right one the
parlour. Left end room was originally an unheated service room. Its gable-
end stack is a later addition.

2 storeys with circa 1930 garage extension on the right end and circa 1930
extensions to rear containing main stair and present kitchen and service
rooms.

Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front with a fourth window to
right in the garage; all circa 1930 timber casements containing rectangular
panes of leaded glass. Front lobby entrance right of centre behind a circa
1930 gabled brick porch containing a plank door with coverstrips. Roof is
gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right. Garage extension roof is also
half-hipped.

Interior: Is largely the result of the circa 1930 modernisation but the C17
layout is preserved and some C17 features are exposed. The centre and right
rooms both have chamfered crossbeams with scroll stops. The right room, the
parlour, has a relatively small fireplace; it has sandstone ashlar sides and a
chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. Larger fireplace to the former
kitchen is lined with C20 brick but its cambered oak lintel is the original.
Elsewhere most of the C17 carpentry is hidden behind C20 plaster. Roof was
extensively rebuilt in the C20 but still retains a C20 clasped side purlin
tie-beam truss.

Listing NGR: TQ5600339245

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641264

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)