Description

ALDBURY TROOPER ROAD
SP 9612
(West side)
12/30 Nos. 42, and 44
30.11.66
GV II
Meeting hall or Church House, converted to farmhouse in C17, now 2
houses. C16, converted with large S gable chimney, cellar, rear outshut
and present main stair in later C17. N gable chimney C19 possibly when
divided. Timber frame on black stucco sill, roughcast panels to jettied
1st floor, painted brick infill to ground floor. Roughcast rear outshut.
Steep old red tile roof with rear catslide extension over outshut. A 2
storeys, attics and cellar house facing E. Continuous jetty on E side to
road. 3 windows to 1st floor and 2 windows and 2 doors on ground floor.
Flush casement windows of 3-lights with rectangular leaded glazing and
old iron opening lights. 4-panel, flush beaded, C19 doors in heavy
frames. Cased jetty with boarded soffit. Wide-spaced studs with
staggered mid-height rail. Front has 3 structural bays with reversed,
curved tension brace in N bay. S gable on upper floor has a large
tension brace from the rear corner post. Very large external S gable
chimney in English bond with tumbled offsets, flues to both floors, and
large tiled oven extension to front. The 3-bays 1st floor was originally
open to the clasped-purlin roof, with a framed partition dividing off
one bay. Mortices in beam suggest a similar division of the ground
floor. No trace of any original form of heating, therefore non-domestic.
Wide S end ground floor fireplace has recessed jambs with shelves.
Chamfered and stopped lintel to fireplace in chamber over. Cellar under
S end. Rear outshut has diagonal corner fireplace at SE corner. (RCHM
Typescript: Davis (1980) No. 27).

Listing NGR: SP9640912216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626242

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings