Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/07/2014

SS 40 NE
7/98

SHEEPWASH,
SOUTH STREET (west side),
No 3

GV II

Small house. Mid to later C17 with C19 addition. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended asbestos slate roof. Brick stack at each end and offset from ridge at rear to left. Plan: 2-room plan. Larger room to right heated by end fireplace. Left-hand room has probably had its fireplace in rear wall inserted. C19 rear outshut added. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 2-window front of early C19 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Central panelled and part-glazed C19 door under gabled slate doorhood on wooden brackets. C19 plank door at left-hand end probably leads to passageway to rear of house. Interior: right-hand room has its original fireplace with chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel and cloam oven. Rough ceiling beam. Small fireplace in left-hand room has plain wooden lintel. Early C19 panelled shutters. The roof may be original or early C18 - it is constructed of hardwood timbers in simple lapped A-frames but the pegs have been left unusually long.

Listing NGR: SS4862306280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398488

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]