RUSH FEN COTTAGE AND CHIVERTON'S COTTAGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1304399
Date first listed: 30-Oct-1987
Date of most recent amendment: 20-Jan-1988
Statutory Address: RUSH FEN COTTAGE AND CHIVERTON'S COTTAGE
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Location
Statutory Address: RUSH FEN COTTAGE AND CHIVERTON'S COTTAGE
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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
In the entry for:-
GELDESTON WEST END
TM 39 SE
7/50 Rush Fen Cottage
and Chilverton's Cottage
II
The entry shall be amended to read:-
TM 59 SE GELDESTON WEST END
7/50 Rush Fen Cottage
and Chiverton's Cottage
II
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GELDESTON WEST END
TM 39 SE
7/50 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 1 1/2 stoeys, rectangular plan. Chilverton's Cottage C17 two
storeys, restored mid C20. 3-light C20 casements, ground floor glazed doors.
Two 2-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. 1 1/2 storeys
with roof sweeping down to low eaves line, wider than Chilverton'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 C14aisled structre, apparently
in situ.
Listing NGR: TM3852392152
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 226827
Legacy System: LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing