Description

BRADWELL COGGESHALL ROAD
TL 82 SW
(south side)

2/20 Whiteshill Farmhouse
27.2.79

GV II

House. Early C17, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed
with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing N with central stack, forming a
lobby-entrance plan, with service wing to rear of stack. C18 extension in rear
right angle, forming a short range parallel to the main range. C19 and C20
single-storey extensions to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes
of 16 lights. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 4 + 8 lights wth some crown
glass. 6-panel door at front of large gabled porch. 6 octagonal shafts. The
right ground-floor room has a large wood-burning hearth, a chamfered axial beam
with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The left
ground-floor room has a large hearth with splayed sides and depressed arch,
plastered, and a similar beam, the joists plastered to the soffits. To the rear
of this hearth is a bread oven, almost complete, originally opening into the
rear wing, the entrance blocked. On the first floor are 3 original internal
doors, one to the attic stair of 3 planks with closely-spaced D-section grooves,
the others with moulded portcullis frames (one reduced in width). The attic
floor and stair to it are original. Jowled posts, straight corner braces
trenched inside the studding. The main range has the original butt-purlin roof,
the rear wing has the original clasped purlin roof. RCHM (Pattiswick) 13.

Listing NGR: TL8208922733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416974

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)