Description

SJ 40 NW PONTESBURY C.P. ARSCOTT

4/160 Arscott House
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- II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed
with painted brick infill and cladding, plain tile roofs. Hall with projecting
jettied cross-wing under separate lower roof at north end. 2 storeys and gable-
lit attic to hall range; 3-window front to hall, late C19 casements, upper
left blocked and those to ground floor with segmental heads; central entrance,
6-panel door under mid-C20 hip-roofed porch; prominent red brick ridge stack
with triangular pilaster shafting to base; cross-wing has one late C19
casement on each floor and a plastered bressumer supported on carved corner
brackets; exposed wall-plate and double-purlin ends to gable with rectangular
panelling and short tension braces to right-hand return; ridge stack at
junction with gable end of hall range. Interior not inspected. V.C.H. VIII
(1968), p.256.

Listing NGR: SJ4357707798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471279

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)