Description

BACTON CHURCH ROAD
TM 06 NE

2/6 Nos 1 and 2 Tailors
Cottages

- II

Two houses; built as one in mid C16, with early C17 alterations. Restored 1985.
3-cell plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered with C20 herring-
bone pargetting in panels. Thatched roof with two C20 casement dormers. An axial
chimney with shaft rebuilt in C20 red brick, and a C20 gable chimney to right.
C20 casements; a C16 diamond-mullioned window beneath the eaves. C20 thatched
gabled entrance porch with framed and boarded door. Heavy C16 framing exposed
internally. Arch-braced studwork, massive unchamfered floor joists, queenpost roof.
A number of complete diamond-mullioned windows; the parlour chamber to left has
moulded mullions. An altered C17 chimney with lintelled open fireplaces. The
former service end was half-hipped and has a blocked mullioned window; to its right
the service end was extended in early C17, also with diamond mullioned windows.
Included despite C20 alterations because of good C16 framing.

Listing NGR: TM0522767131

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635322

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)