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SX 76 SW
6/168

DEAN PRIOR
HIGHER DEAN
Nos 1 and 2

(Formerly listed as Simms Cottages)

9-2-61

GV
II

Pair of cottages, originally one house. Circa late C16 to early C17, with later alterations. Rendered columns. Steeply pitched asbestos slate roof, one end gabled, the other half-hipped. No 1's roof to left is slightly lower. Rendered end stacks. Probably three room and through passage plan with stack at either end. Position of hall stack uncertain, but probably axial stack backing onto passage and now truncated below roof. Newel stairs at rear of higher end. One storey and attic. Three window range. C20 two-light casements. No 2 has two C20 racking roof dormers at eaves level. No 1 has lean-to extension at front with catslide roof with C20 porch to No 2 in the angle.

Interior: No 2 has chamfered half beam against higher end wall with bar stop. Other chamfered ceiling beams, one over possible portion of screen to inner room. Fireplace in higher end wall with plan timber lintel. Newel stairs in rear wall at higher end. Roof of No 1 at lower end has three trusses. One complete truss with morticed apex and morticed far collar which is missing, and with three tiers of mortice holes for threaded purlins which are missing. One blade of similar truss, the other blade a later replacement. One more truss with lap-jointed side pegged collar. No2 of higher end has similar but much altered roof, some of the principals have mortices for threaded purlins.

Listing NGR: SX7305664679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610972

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)