Description

SK 01 NE
6/122

MAVESYN RIDWARE CP
Rake End
UTTOXETER ROAD (west side)
The Thatch

GV
II
Cottage. C16. Timber framing combining post and truss and cruck construction with painted brick infill panels; hipped thatch roof; brick ridge stack. Two-cell baffle-entry plan house possibly containing an open hall originally. One storey and attic, three tiers of square panels. Irregular fenestration: small C20 windows to ground floor left and right, and small attic dormer to the right. Central C20 door and small thatched porch. Single-storey painted brick extension to the right with tall brick end stack and C20 casement. Exposed cruck truss to the left-hand gable, with curved blades carrying one pair of purlins, terminated by a saddle which formerly supported a half-hipped roof.

Interior: central curved cruck truss. Built against the north side of the central truss is the chimney stack which has a timber bressumer which carries a chamfered spine beam. Chamfered cross beam in the south bay, probably on insertion. The north gable is of post and truss construction and has a queen strut roof truss.

Listing NGR: SK0774718308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541306

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)