Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage
GABLE COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048218
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GABLE COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048218
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GABLE COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- TIBBLETON COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
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:
- GABLE COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
- Statutory Address:
- TIBBLETON COTTAGE, WELLSHEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 49168 88872
Details
SU4988
10/149
HARWELL
WELLSHEAD LANE
(South side Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage)
GV
II*
House, now 2 dwellings. c.1295 rear range; late C17 front range and encasement
of rear range; C19 and C20 alterations. Render on timber-framing with areas of
stone rubble and painted brick old plain-tile roof; brick ridge stack to
centre, end stack to left. Rear: painted brick; old plain-tile roof, hipped in
left. 2-storey, 2-window range. Sash door to left of centre. Irregular
fenestration of mainly Cl9 casements. Interior of Tibbleton Cottage: contains
one cruck truss with a tie beam and two collars, the lower being arch-braced;
and there are remains of another cruck truss. These trusses have been
radio-carbon dated as having a probable felling date of 1275. This is the
earliest timber-framed true cruck house so far identified in England.
("Two Early Cruck Houses in North Berkshire Identified by Radiocarbon" by C.R.J.
Currie and J.M. Fletcher in "Medieval Archaeology" Vol.16 1972 pp136-142)
Listing NGR: SU4916888872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 16, (1972), 136-142
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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