Description

FINNINGHAM
TM 07 SE 2/20
Lodge Cottage, WALSHAM ROAD (NORTH EAST SIDE)

GV II

House. Early C16, floor inserted and extended late C16, part raised in C17, reroofed early C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Shallow pitched pantiled roof. Originally a small 2 bay open hall with cross passage in lower hall bay, original lower bay to left which was probably storeyed has disappeared; 3 bay stack and parlour addition to right, early bays raised to uniform 2 storeys. Scattered 1,2 and 3-light glazing bar casements and French windows. Axial ridge stack to right of centre between hall and parlour is cement rendered with broadening visible above later ridge. Gable end exposed early plates and later purlins, to right a C20 pantiled outshut with an entrance leading to 1 storey C20 rear additions. Interior: 4 centred arched door head to rear of cross passage, altered full height studding, original hall window was 5-lights with parts of roll and hollow mullions reset in a former service doorway, 4-light diamond mullioned window openings, inserted bar and leaf stop chamfered binding beams and side girts, stop chamfered fireplace bressumer, traces of mortices for open truss arched braces in posts subsequently stop chamfered. Depressed arched head to doorway into parlour has been moved slightly, parlour has stop chamfered cross axial binding beam
and storey posts, close studding, curved tension bracing and first floor arched bracing in walls, 4 centred arched brick fireplace on first floor, cambered tie beam.

Listing NGR: TM0574370661

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284614

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2