Description

TL 1824 PRESTON CRUNNELLS GREEN
(West side)

9/88 Reeves Cottage

II

House. Late medieval open hall house, chimney stack and floors inserted
in early C17, front lean-to extension C18, S end extension 1970s. Timber
frame, roughcast with steep old red tiled roof carried down as catslide
over front extension. A 16 storeys house facing E with canted bay window
with hipped tiled roof to left of door and lean-to red brick extension
on right. A 3-lights and single-light box dormer at eaves. Boarded door
under flat hood on shaped brackets. Large internal chimney, with
corbelled cap, a third from N end. Small projecting S gable stack
flanked by a window on each side on each floor. Interior has exposed
frame, axial beams. Fragmentary evidence of a 2-bays open hall with
smoke blackened rafters remaining. House was presumably larger. Bar and
hollow stops to inserted beam in N room similar to stops on lintels to
back-to-back fireplaces in stack built around the central truss.
Formerly called Hill Farm Cottage. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1807624301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396486

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)