Description

SW 63 SE WENDRON

4/345 Tolcarne Farm Cottage
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II

Small house. Possibly C17 or C18 incorporating some C17 masonry from former house
possibly on the same site, roof heightened in the C20. Painted rubble walls.
Asbestos slate roof. Dressed granite stacks over the gable ends.
Plan: C18 part has 2 rooms (now 1 room), parlour on the left and hall/kitchen on the
right. Later C18 or C19 heated lean-to on the right and C19 lean-tos at the rear.
On the left is ruinous former house or bakehouse with domed granite oven in its
fireplace.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 2 window south front with central doorway.
C20 porch, C19 inner ledged door. C20 horned sashes. Original openings to ground
floor, enlarged openings to first floor.
Interior: 3 probably C18 granite fireplaces. Large fireplace in original
hall/kitchen has domed oven, straight chamfered lintel and hollow chamfered jamb on
the left; parlour fireplace has 1 chamfered jamb. Other visible features are C19 or
C20.

Listing NGR: SW6855834793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434828

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings