Description

ST 67 NE PUCKLECHURCH SHORTWOOD ROAD
(West side)

4/10002 No 30
Crump House

- II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1624 on front door. Coursed limestone rubble with double Roman
tile roofand stone end stacks. T-shaped plan, with right-hand parlour and left-hand hall/kitchen in
symmetrical front range, with central entry opposite stair housed in rear dairy wing. 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 3-window front, with strap hinges and original lock to original plank door with
moulded ribs; round-arched relieving arches over tall 3-light stone-mullioned ogee-moulded
windows to ground floor, and hood mould over 2-light flanked by 3-light first-floor windows with
ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows; leaded lights. Similar wood- and stone-mullioned
windows to other elevations, and chamfered wood frame with 4-centred arch to doorway in rear
wing. Interior noted as having many original features including joinery and stair with 4 plain
diamond balusters, octagonal newel post, plain chamfered string and scratch-moulded handrail;
collar-truss roof A very good and complete example of its date, the symmetrical front and centralised
plan being an early instance of its type. Little altered, notably with removal of hoodmoulds to first
floor and 2 gabled dormers from front.

Listing NGR: ST6977876374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521787

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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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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)