Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage

Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage, West End

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304399
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage
Statutory Address:: Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage, West End

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304399
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage, West End

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:: Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage, West End

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Geldeston
National Grid Reference:: TM 38523 92152

Details

TM 39 SE 7/50 GELDESTON WEST END Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage

(Formerly listed as Rush Fen Cottage and Chilverton's Cottage)

II Pair of cottages. Medieval and later. Timber framed and colourwashed at west end, encased in later red brick to east. Steeply-pitched pantile roof. Two storeys and one and a half storeys, rectangular plan.

Chiverton's Cottage; C17 two storeys, restored mid C20. Three-light C20 casements, ground floor glazed doors. Two two-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows survive at south side of chimney stack, one inscribed R.G. 1618. One blocked ovolo-moulded window at first floor level on north wall. Beam supporting first floor has stepped run-out chamfer stops. Chimney stack at east end.

Rush Fen Cottage has red brick encasing timber frame. East gable rendered and colourwashed. One and a half storeys with roof sweeping down to low eaves line, wider than Chiverton's Cottage. Fenestration generally C20 casements with segmental arches over openings. C20 gabled and weatherboarded dormer on west side. Off-centre axial chimney stack. First floor east end contains two jowled principal posts, octagonal in section below expanded top, with moulded capitals. Cambered tie between posts. Trenches for passing braces in jowled post and tie. Square-set aisle plates with straight braces to principal posts. Aisle posts now truncated by the C16 insertion of the first floor, and are supported on a tie beam with broach chamfer stops. This is a fragment of a C14 aisled structure, apparently in situ.

Listing NGR: TM3852392152

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Legacy System number:: 226827
Legacy System:: LBS

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