Description

GREAT BLAKENHAM CHALK HILL LANE
TM 15 SW
Frogs Hall
3/51
- Nos. 1 and 2
- II

Pair of cottages, formerly one house. Early or mid C17. 3-cell cross-passage
entrance plan; the main range is of one storey with attics, the parlour cross-
wing of 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered, the gable at left and part of
the rear wall were rebuilt C20 in brick. Roman pantiled roofs with C19 gabled
casement dormer. Axial C17 chimney (the shaft almost rebuilt in red brick in
C19). Various C19 and C20 casements and panelled entrance doors. Back-to-
back open fireplaces to hall and parlour. Unmoulded exposed framing in the
parlour, typical of C17; floor joists chamfered and on-edge. Wind-braced butt-
purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM1105150824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553848

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)