Description

SD 42NE HUTTON RATTEN LANE

3/14 Nos. 138 and 140
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- II

Cruck-framed cottages, probably C17, original number not known but now
2 cottages. No.140 which has been thoroughly but harmoniously modernised,
is included in the item because it contains important elements of the
original timber structure. No. 138: brick, thatched roof covered by red
corrugated sheet, boarded eaves. Baffle-entry plan of 3½ bays. Single
storey;central doorway, one 2-light window each side, and a single-light
window at left end. Now has no chimney, but interior stack is central.
Interior: 3 full cruck-trusses; ridge and purlins (overlapped on cruck
blades) of large scantling, one windbrace to purlin in each of 2 middle
bays; collar with kingpost c. one metre in front of chimney-breast in
housepart, cross wall at lower end of housepart infilled with mud; 3rd
bay has been raised from the hip or lengthened. In No.140 cruck-frame
and purlins continue, one full cruck truss remaining, and one cruck truss
at the left end severed above the tie suggesting originally hipped end to
thatched roof.

Listing NGR: SD4919927168

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643844

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)