Langtree Cottages

1 to 3, Langtree Cottages, Checkendon, Reading, RG8 0SP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249925
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: Langtree Cottages
Statutory Address:: 1 to 3, Langtree Cottages, Checkendon, Reading, RG8 0SP

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Date:: 2001-09-03
Reference:: IOE01/05079/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249925
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: Langtree Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: 1 to 3, Langtree Cottages, Checkendon, Reading, RG8 0SP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1 to 3, Langtree Cottages, Checkendon, Reading, RG8 0SP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Checkendon
National Grid Reference:: SU 66360 82958

Details

SU 68 SE 5/83

CHECKENDON Langtree Cottages Nos 1-3 (consecutive)

GV II

Three cottages. 1906 by Maxwell Ayrton; minor late C20 alterations. Timber-framed with lath and plaster infill, on brick plinth; plain tile roof; brick stacks. L-shaped plan. Four irregular bays of one storey with attic, with two-storey wing projecting on right. In Arts and Crafts style.

Timber frame has sole plate; narrow rectangular panels; jettied wing with arch braces, tie-beam, collar and king-post to gable. Wooden casement windows with rectangular or diamond-leaded glazing. Board stable doors with strap hinges. Chimneys have pilaster strips, bands and cornices.

Main range, from left: two-light window at left end, returning round corner for three lights; door (to No. 1); three-light window; door (to No. 2); right bay recessed with arch-braced bressummer and two-light window. Coved plastered eaves. Two hipped-roofed two-light dormers. Roof at left end hipped with gablet, broken by corbelled, gabled, dormer, and with lateral stack with offsets. Ridge stack and one to rear right.

Wing: window of three lights to ground floor, five lights above; left return has door and windows of two and five lights to ground floor, five and two lights above; right return has door inside 1988 brick addition which is in keeping.

Rear: five bays, in line, the right bay with jettied first floor and gabled. Two doors; various windows. Lateral stack between left bays.

Interior not fully inspected, but No. 1 has fireplace with corbelled timber bressummer, and No. 3 has board doors with ironware, original dresser in front room, beams.

Listing NGR: SU6636082958

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Legacy System number:: 247210
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 96
'The lesser country houses of today: oak and plaster cottages in Oxfordshire' in Country Life, (20th January 1912), .

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.