Description

SO 37 SE; 12/36

BUCKNELL C.P.,
CHAPEL LAWN ROAD (west side),
Bucknell,
The Willows

GV

II

House, now partly used as post office. C14 or C15 core with later additions
and alterations, considerably remodelled c.1920. Roughcast brick and timber
frame of cruck construction with rendered brick addition; slate roof. Original
plan probably an open-hall house of three cruck-framed bays, floored over in C17,
eaves raised and considerably altered c.1920. Two storeys. Three early
C20 casements directly below eaves, five casements to ground floor, three to left of C20
porch with half-glazed door (left mid-C20) and two to right. Gable facing
road is c.1920 addition: two segmental-headed windows on first floor; wide
shuttered shop front to ground floor with segmental-headed doorway and window
to right. Red brick ridge stack to right of original part and C20 integral
red brick end stack to left. Subsidiary external lateral stack to left wall
of C20 addition. Truncated cruck truss exposed to left gable end.

INTERIOR.
Two true cruck trusses, in addition to that exposed to left gable end, survive,
both chamfered with collars plus arch-bracing to right truss. Massive chamfered
spine beam and cross beams to ground floor. Jacobean overmantel to fireplace
beneath ridge stack said to have been brought from Bucknell Cottage (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO3541973942

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306640

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)