Description

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SP 94 NE
10/10000

KEMPSTON
WEST END ROAD
Three Ways Cottage

(Formerly listed as Threeways Farmhouse)

II
House. Circa late C18. Plastered timber frame on stone rubble plinth and with stone rubble south gable end. Corrugated iron sheet roof with gabled ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts, south end projecting stone rubble stack.

Plan: central through passage and two rooms heated from gable end stacks; the smaller right hand room has pantry at rear entered from passage.

Exterior: one storey and attic. Almost symmetrical two window east front. Late C18 or C19 three-light casements with glazing bars; smaller attic casements in eyebrow eaves with pointed arch top panes. Central doorway with plank door and later gabled timber porch clad in corrugated iron sheets. At rear central doorway with pilastered case, small canopy and plank door.

Interior: ground floor rooms have roughly chamfered axial beams. Small fireplaces with cast-iron ranges; left hand room (kitchen) has moulded shelf and winder stairs to side of stack. Simple balustrade at top of stairs. Other original joinery includes simple two-panel doors on both floors. Left hand chamber has Victorian cast-iron grate. Chambers ceiled and only wall plates exposed. Where plaster has fallen the light scantling timber frame is exposed externally.

Listing NGR: SP9995448395

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588074

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)