Description

LANDKEY LANDKEY TOWN
SS 53 SE
7/124 Town Mills

GV II

House including bakehouse. Possibly 1659 by dated frieze, though earlier fabric
may be concealed. Extended c.1900 at right end. Colour painted rendered stone and
cob. Extension in stone rubble with brick dressings. Thatch roof, hipped at left
end to main range with brick ridge stack. Slate roof with stacks to each end of
extension. Main range, 3 room cross passage plan bu t with axial stack heating
hall and parlour. Continuous outshut to rear. Outbuilding formerly flour store at
left end converted to part of dwelling with single storey bakehouse wing at right
angles to front forming overall L-shaped plan. Extension of c.1900 at right end
with higher roof level to main range. 2 storeys. 5 window range to main range,
with added 2 window range to extension. C19/C20 casements, 2 light, 2-panes per
light at left end otherwise 4 panes per light. Ground floor has plank door at left
end and 2-light casement, 4-panes per light between 2 lean-to C20 porches, that to
right has 1/2-glazed panelled door to cross-passage doorway with bay window to right,
that to left has glazed door of 2 leaves.
Interior: cross-passage has stud partitions to both sides, renewed to left side, 9
panels wide to right side with scroll-stopped and chamfered studs. Chamfered
surrounds to rear passage doorway and to rear of hall with old 3 plank door.
Scroll-stopped chamfered durns to door surround at head of stairs. Decorative
moulded plasterwork frieze to parlour to left of stack obscured by later cupboards
and plasterwork overmantel with moulded top and bottom rails dated 1659, the date
flankign 3 plant design interspersed by pair of C.H. initials. Chamber over has
moulded plasterwork cornice with vine motif to all 4 walls and plasterwork
overmantel in early Classical style with 3 semicircular headed arches supported on
thin pilasters, the arches continuing half a bay to each side, with plant design to
each full bay. C18/C19 roof structure with 3 roughly pegged trusses with side-
pegged collars and waney rafters. The purlins resting on the backs of the trusses.

Listing NGR: SS5926931107

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401489

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living