Description

TL 43 SW & TL 4033 ANSTEY CHEAPSIDE
(North side)

2/11 & 6/11 Farm Cottage
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GV II

House. C16 open hall house, inserted floor and chimney late C16,
renovated and rear bakehouse C18. Timberframe on stuccoed sill roughcast
with dark weatherboarding at front and E end. Steep old red tile roof.
Corrugated sheet roof to weatherboarded bakehouse. A small, 2 storeys
and loft, 2 windows wide house facing S with internal chimney backing
onto cross-passage, and single-storey rear bakehouse at NW. The house
represents the hall, cross-passage, and storeyed service end of a late
medieval house, presumably extending further W. The inserted hall
fireplace, backing onto the cross-passage has elaborate late C16 moulded
lintol and a heavy chamfered cross-beam with hollow stops suggests the
inserted floor at higher level than in E part which has an axial beam
and squared joists at 2 levels, the upper for a loft with external E
access. The front has 2 2-light flush casement windows with small panes
on each floor, a boarded door with lean-to slated hood, and shaped ends
to rafters. Exposed timbers inside with jowled posts and heavy cambered
tie-beams with curved braces in open truss of hall, each member
chamfered. Large brick oven in bakehouse. Stair against rear wall beside
chimney. 2 moulded plank doors with decorative iron strap hinges.
(Bailey (1980)20).

Listing NGR: TL4099933162

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631150

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990