Description

SY 8192, SY 8193, SY 8293, SY 8292
12/41 AFFPUDDLE BRIANTSPUDDLE
20.11.59 (North Side)

No. 31 Briantspuddle
Cruck Cottage.
(Formerly listed as
Nos 31 and 32)

II

Cottage. Late C15 origin, extended C17. Orginally of open hall form with cruck
trusses. Plastered cob walls on brick and stone base. Thatched roof. Brick stacks
- one rendered. One storey and attics. Front wall buttressed. Modern ledged door
under pentice with stone slate roof. Ground floor has four casement windows with
glazing bars. Attic has three dormers with casements with glazing bars.
Internally, the house was originally open to the roof, three bays long, with true
cruck trusses, parts of which survive. An intermediate floor was inserted in the
late C16. The western room has deep chamfered ceiling beams and a chimney stack of
this date. The eastern room and end chimney stack were added in the late C17.
Traces of a bread oven or curing chamber adjoin this stack. Both stacks have large
open fireplaces - now partly built up - with oak lintels.
RCHM Monument 4.

Listing NGR: SY8193293216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413742

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair