Description

BARDSEY-CUM-RIGTON CHURCH LANE
SE34SE LS17 (west side)

7/6
Oak Tree Cottage

GV II

House. Late C16 with early C19 alteration and extension. Rendered and
pebble-dashed rubble walls, exposed timber-frame to south front, C20 brown
tile roof but thatched originally. 2 cells with central through-passage.
2 storeys. 3 bays, central bay narrower. Central doorway has moulded wood
architrave with, to right, jamb posts to either side on padstones. To left,
cruciform wooden casement window; to right, wide Yorkshire sash. Smaller
Yorkshire sashes to 1st floor. 1st-floor timbering: mid-rail, wall-plate,
4 posts with straight braces and close-studded wall. The studs are pegged
and jointed to rail and plate and halved over the braces and taper off.
The left-hand 2 bays are lower than right-hand bay, perhaps indicating a
difference in floor heights originally. Ridge stack at junction of 1st and
2nd cells. Rear: later added cell to rear of 2nd cell has parallel roof.
1st cell has window with projecting sill and ½ dormer above. Right-hand
return has single Yorkshire sash with 2 windows above and small windows
above them, one circular, one rectangular. Added cell has doorway with
wooden surround and 1st-floor canted-bay windows.

Interior: much of the timbering survives: former bressumer with stop-chamfers
supported either end by posts on padstones. Posts have jowelled heads and
are braced to wall-plate. On 1st floor rear wall of 2nd cell, at junction
with later addition, has surviving close-studded wall.

In the C19 this was a tobacconist's shop and formerly had a notice over the
front door saying "Here lives Nathaniel Clough
A seller of tobacco
And very fine snuff".
The exposed timber framing is a rare survival in this region.
RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE3638543032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429021

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)