Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW OLD CHURCH LANE
723-1/6/460 (North side)
20/02/76 Reaper's Croft
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
OLD CHURCH LANE, Mountnessing
The Thatched Cottage)

II

Cottage. C18 or early C19, extended in C19 and C20.
Timber-framed, plastered, roof thatched. Rectangular plan
facing S, with external stack at right end. C19 extension to
left, with external stack at end, and C20 lean-to extension to
rear of it, roofed with felt. C20 extension to right enclosing
original stack, set back, with hipped roof of handmade red
clay tiles. One storey. All windows are C20 casements with
diamond leading; all except the right window have C20 external
plain shutters. C20 door recessed in right extension.
INTERIOR: unjowled posts. The rear wallplate has a simple
splayed scarf near the left end, bolted. Primary straight
bracing. The main posts are tenoned and pegged to the
wallplates, the studs nailed, about 0.45m apart. C20 grate at
right. C20 ceiling below original plastered ceiling.
Side-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ6395496562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584805

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)