Description

ARKHOLME-WITH-CAWOOD MAIN STREET (north side)
SD 57 SE

4/20 Cort House
4-10-1967
GV II

House, 1700, altered. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays.
Windows modern with plain stone surrounds. Left-hand ground-floor window
of 3 lights with flat-faced mullions. Door, in central bay, has
cyma-moulded surround with lintel inscribed: 'RCI [Richard and Jane Cort]
1700'. Above, a sandstone flag forms a hood. The stonework shows traces of
a drip course which has been removed and of blocked mullioned windows.
Gable chimneys. Inside,the left-hand room has a firehood bressumer with a
blocked mortise for a heck post. In the gable wall is a spice cupboard
with panelled door. The present fireplace is C18th and shouldered, with a
moulded cornice mantel and fielded panels on the lintel. In the loft two
elaborately shaped and moulded king-post trusses of re-used cruck timber
are visible. One rises from a tie beam and has raking queen struts; the
other rises from a collar. Both have empty mortises for braces to the
ridge.

Listing NGR: SD5869071903

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26326973

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)