Description

CODDENHAM CHURCH ROAD
TM 15 SW
7/2 Willow Farmhouse
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- II

Former farmhouse. Late C16 with alterations of mid C17. Timber-framed and
plastered. Plaintiled roof with prominent pierced and cusped C19 bargeboards.
A mid C17 axial chimney of red brick has an unaltered sawtooth shaft with
oversailing cap. 2 storeys. C19 small-pane windows mainly of 3 lights and
with horizontally sliding centre lights. Several mullioned windows of C16 and
C17 are exposed and glazed. Early C19 entrance door with 6 fielded panels.
Arch windbraced close-studwork and unchamfered floor joists are exposed
internally. Two fireplaces have good C17 arched heads with ovolo-mouldings,
one also having sunk spandrels. A short 2-storey wing on the south side is
possibly an original staircase tower. It has moulded mullions of mid C16 type
which are possibly reused. The original building has a wind-braced clasped-
purlin roof. The C17 wing on the north side has close-studding of lesser
quality, and a 2-tier butt-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM1333253976

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284742

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House