Description

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RIPE
RIPE LANE (south side)
Eckington House

(Formerly listed as Eckington House, MAIN STREET)

13.10.52

II*
L-shaped timber-framed house fronted with red brick in late C16 or early C17 but the back wing and possibly the whole building is older. Two storeys and cellar above ground, also attic in gable end. Two windows. Two small gables. Tiled roof. Windows in stone surrounds with dripstones over, those on the first floor being the original casements with stone mullions, but those on the ground floor altered in the C18. Gabled brick porch up nine steps with carved bressummer, bargeboards and pendant. Brick doorway with almost square head and iron-studded door of 24 panels. Brick chimney breast on the south wall. The back wing has some timber-framing and close-studding exposed on the first floor.

Listing NGR: TQ5109410136

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556593

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)