Description

ST 20 NE STOCKLAND LONG BRIDGE ROAD
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8.5.67 Lower Long Bridge (or
Owl's Castle)

II

House. Circa early C16 hall house with floor inserted circa late C16. Plastered
stone rubble or cob. Thatched roof with half-hipped ends and eyebrow eaves. Two
storeys. Five window range. Upper (west) end originally an outbuilding. Modern
metal frame casements with later panes. Near east end a modern door to cross
passage with modern thatched rustic porch. Rendered ridge and end chimney stacks.
Small two-light chamfered wood mullion window at rear. Short modern rear wing with
half hipped thatched roof. Interior: jointed cruck trusses. At higher end a plank
and muntin screen with four-centred arch chamfered doorway. Similar doorway other
side of cross passage and another, originally an external rear door at end of cross
passage. Stopped chamfer ceiling beams and chamfered fireplace bressumer with stone
jambs. Adam style chimney piece in first floor room. National Monuments Record
report.

Listing NGR: ST2526405234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26465075

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey