1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES

1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366878
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES, NEW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366878
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES, NEW STREET

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 AND 2 OAK COTTAGES, NEW STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ford
National Grid Reference:: SJ4146213796

Details

SJ 4013-4113 13/71 26.11.76

FORD C.P. NEW STREET (West side) Nos. 1 and 2, Oak Cottages (Formerly listed as 1-2 Oak Cottages)

II

House, now divided and disused. Probably C15 with C16 addition. Timber framed of cruck construction with lath and plaster and red brick infill; plain tile roof. Former open hall of one large and one small framed bay aligned approximately north-west/south-east with projecting C16 gabled cross-wing of 2 framed bays to west. Framing: cross-wing with square panels (3 from sole-plate to wall- plate) and close studding. One storey and attic with 2-storey cross-wing. South-west front: central timber-framed gabled eaves dormer to hall range with pair of 2-light wooden casements; large brick stack with recessed panel off-centre to left at junction with cross-wing, and C18 or C19 external brick end stack to front of cross-wing. Hall range with central 2-light wooden casement, boarded door off-centre to right, and doorway to right minus door. Cross-wing to left has parallel diagonal strutting in the gable end to front and king-post truss with V-struts in gable at rear; south-west front with 2-light wooden casement off-centre to left boarded door off-centre to right and probably C18 or C19 large raking red sandstone rubble buttress to left; rear of hall range has blocked triangular-headed doorway to left and cruck truss with scotch to its left. Interior: 2 full cruck trusses; right-hand end truss with cambered collar and V-struts and former hall truss, with arch-braced collar and continuous chamfer; chamfered wind braces; central truss to cross-wing with tie beam cut through; central ground-floor room has c.1600 ceiling with ogee-stopped chamfered intersecting beams and joists, and inserted large open fireplace of c.1600 with chamfered lintel and early C19 surround with bracketed mantelpiece; small bay to right; chamfered beams with ogee and run-out stops. Cross-wing has stud partitions, round-arched fireplace in ground- floor front room and blocked segmental-headed doorway in rear room. The right-hand range was formerly an open hall of 2 framed bays and the stack and first floor were inserted probably in the late C16 or early C17. V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 226; Alcock, p. 143.

Listing NGR: SJ4146213796

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Legacy System number:: 258976
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 226
Alcock, N W, 'Council for British Archaeology Research Report' in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981), 143

Legal

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