Description

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SJ 87 NE
5/182

PRESTBURY C.P.
BOLLIN GROVE
Spittle House (west range only)

GV
II*
Formerly part of monastic leprosy hospital, now part of house: perhaps C14 with C17 and C20 repairs. Timber framed on a sandstone plinth. Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Rectangular plan of two bays. East front has ten by two tall rectangular panels with angle bracing of the wall plate and a glazed door in an earlier opening and an inserted C20 window. To left is an extension in rubble stone and to right in C20 brick.

Interior: three pairs of matched elbow crucks with a tie beam, two tall queen posts, a collar (later insertions) and a small triangular yoke. Wind braced through purlins and ridge. The southern bay appears to have been open to the roof and the ridge shows evidence of burning. The northern bay was of two storeys, there being slots for the joints in the tie beams and a rebated doorcase between the queen posts. The jambs of the crucks are chamfered.

The hospital was managed by St.Werburgh's Abbey, Chester who held the parish of Prestbury, and is a remarkable survival of a timber framed Monastic building of a simple plan and construction.

Listing NGR: SJ8964677782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551610

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)