Description

SWAN LANE
1.
5387
Swan Cottage
TQ 2441 5/74
II

2.
Early to mid C15 2 bay hall-house with ceiling and chimney inserted in early C17.
There was originally a one bay open hall with service bay having bedroom over.
Two storeys timber-framed with painted brick infilling. Same diagonal braces. The
left side elevation is hung with curved tiles and has an external brick chimney-stack.
Tiled roof hipped at one end. Two casements. Simple doorcase with wooden architrave
and later gabled weather house. The interior contains a Crown post roof, an ingle
nook hearth and the original partition between the hall and 2 service rooms. (See
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 113). Joan M Harding, "Four Centuries
of Charlwood Houses" p 82).

Listing NGR: TQ2458141330

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540836

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey