Description

OLD NEWTON CHAPEL ROAD
TM 06 SE WITH DAGWORTH

5/131 The Cottage
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GV II

House, early C16. One storey and attics. A three-cell open hall house.
Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled roof, once thatched; two raking
casement dormers. An external end chimney of red brick at either gable.
C19/C20 small-pane casements. Boarded C20 entrance door with open gabled
porch on posts. The 2-bay hall has one of a pair of 4-centred arched service-
room doorways exposed. The service cell to right has lodged unchamfered floor
joists. Heavy studwork, rather widely spaced. The open truss in the hall has
a pair of posts with archbrace evidence; the uncambered tiebeam has been moved
slightly for a chimney (later to be removed). Smoke encrustation at roof
level: the roof was rebuilt in C17/C18 but reusing blackened rafters.

Listing NGR: TM0604662449

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573625

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)