Description

PIRTON SHILLINGTON ROAD
TL 1431 (South side)

7/176 No. 21
- (Lavender Cottage)

GV II

House. Early C16 open hall house, early C17 W crosswing. Timber frame on
battered brick plinth, roughcast, with steep pitched thatch roofs. A
small L-shaped house set back from road facing N, with single-storey
hall range and 1 1/2-storeys W crosswing projecting only to front. 3
windows front with an upper window in gable of crosswing. 2-lights flush
casement windows with small-panes. Plank door opposite internal C17
chimney near middle of hall range. Originally a 2 rooms house open to
roof with hearth in W room shown by thicker soot blackening of
clasped-purlin roof. 2 posts on ground floor have stopped grooves for
wattle infill. Ceiling inserted on axial beam with internal chimney in
C17 heating W room. Crosswing added to W with unheated parlour and
chamber over reached by stair in SE corner. Chamfered and stopped beam.
1st floor partly in roof with traces of big windows below tie-beam.
Clasped-purlin roof with long straight windbraces and ceiling at purlin
level. C20 addition to rear. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1435731937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630571

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record