Cruck Cottage
CRUCK COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047869
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Cruck Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCK COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047869
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cruck Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUCK COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCK COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Wittenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54490 93704
Details
LONG WITTENHAM HIGH STREET SU5493 (North side) 9/87 Cruck Cottage 14/06/63 (Formerly listed as No. 18/18A)
GV II
House. C14 with C16 cross-wing. Cruck-framed; limestone rubble base; large timber-framing; rendered infill to left; brick infill to centre, and left and right returns of cross-wing; thatch roof with old plain-tile valley; brick central ridge stack, lateral stack to left return of cross-wing. Single-storey, 3-window range to left, 2-storey cross-wing to right. C20 porch to rear. Irregular fenestration of casements and sashes. Roof half-hipped to left, cross-gable to cross-wing. 3 full crucks to C14 portion. Jointed crucks to cross-wing with curved wind-braces. C16 doors to some rooms of C16 cross-wing. (Derek Portman "Cruck Houses in Long Wittenham", Berkshire Archaeological Journal Vol.56, 1958, p.35-45; Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.171).
Listing NGR: SU5449093704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248700
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 171
Berkshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 56, (1958), 35-45
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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