Description

CRETINGHAM OTLEY ROAD
TM 25 NW
(East side)
4/43
Nos 287 and 288
- (estate numbering)
15.10.87
- II

Two cottages, originally one small farmhouse. C16 or C17. Timber framed
with a colourwashed render and a thatched roof. Two storeys. Entrance
front: projecting C19 gabled wing with brick walling at left of centre and
at right of it beneath the porch is a plank door with a 2-light casement at
right of it. To the first floor above this is a 3-light C19 casement
window. Attached to the right hand gable end is a lean-to outshut of brick
which has a 2-light C19 window. Left hand side: ground floor 2-light
window and a first floor 3-light casement and projecting at right the wing
which has a porch to the re-entrant angle and a 3-light window at right.
Rear: two 2-light ground floor casements and one 2-light window.
Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams and close-studded walling to the ground
floor. C19 winder staircase leading to the first floor which also has
close studding and a blocked 3-light window with diamond section mullions.

Listing NGR: TM2267359434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494494

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)