Description

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SP 50 SW
1/100

LITTLEMORE
COWLEY ROAD (East side)
No 28 (Dormer Croft)

(Formerly listed as Nos.26 and 28 (Dormer Croft))

II

House. Early C17, possibly earlier. Coursed squared limestone rubble and brickwork of irregular bond; old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. Two-unit through-passage plan with cross-wing. Main range of one storey plus attics with brick-cased two-window front. C20 door between two-light casements with two two-light dormers. Steep roof with stacks to left gable and to right of passage, just below ridge. Left gable wall has N/B/S/1657 on quoin. Two-window return front of two-storey stone cross-wing to right has been altered and has C20 casements. Front gable has a stone stack.

Interior: Main range has two open fireplaces with cambered chamfered bressumers, one flanked by a fixed wooden settle, and chamfered and stopped beams and joists. Joists span onto perimeter beams. Roof trusses support single row of trenched purlins with heavy wind-braces. Cross-wing has first-floor fireplace with timber Tudor arch, and above a plaster panel with a moulded arched border surrounding a portrait head and floral design flanked by the date 1630. Intersecting chamfered and stopped beams at ground floor.

Cottage attached to front gable of cross-wing is excluded.

Listing NGR: SP5392503054

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477594

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House