Description

TL 2377 ABBOTS RIPTON MOAT LANE
(North side)
16/13 White Gates

GV II

Cottage. 1622 and C19-C20. Timber framed, plaster rendered and cased or
rebuilt in brick on the front and the end wall. Long straw thatch half hipped roof and local brown-red brick ridge stack with one flue rebuilt. Two bays and lobby entry, with C19 two bay rear kitchen wing. One storey and attic.
Two c.1920 casements under segmental arches on either side of front door. End wall framed and plastered. Gable end modern casement. The rear wing is brick with thatched roof. Inside: Back to back hearths, one inserted in C19 when the cottage was subdivided. Original staircase at side of stack now blocked, and C19 cupboard staircase in former parlour. Inglenook fireplace has cast-iron fireback and date 1622 above initials I + H (possibly celebrating a marriage). The ceiling of this room has chamfered joists and a broad stop chamfer to the main beam.
RCHM: Hunts mon (11) HRO: survey report

Listing NGR: TL2325477948

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423268

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)