Description

SANFORD-IN-THE-VALE CHURCH GREEN
SU3493 (North side)
9/218 No,13 (Vine Cottage) and No.12
10/11/52 (Formerly listed as Nos. 86
and 87, The Green)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late Cl6, remodelled in C18 with cottage to right (No. 12)
added in C18. Uncoursed limestone rubble, painted white, roughcast left wall;
old tile roof with stone slate farwells at base; brick stacks, except central
stone stack finished in brick. 2-unit through-passage plan with later cottage to
right. One storey and attic; 4-window range. Timber lintels over three C20 plank
doors, one C20 casement and three 3-light leaded casements, the one to the left
having plank shutters. Two gabled roof dormers to left, one of which has a fire
insurance plaque, have 3-light leaded casements; lower gabled dormers to right
have C20 casement and one late C19 two-light casement. Gabled roof; right and
centre ridge stacks and C18 off-ridge gable end stack to left. Rear wall has
timber lintels over 2-light leaded casements, one raking dormer with a 2-light
leaded casement and two gabled dormers, one with 2-light leaded casements.
Interior of No.13: C18 brick floor to centre, C18 two-panelled and plank doors.
Chamfered beams to left and right rooms tenoned into central timber-framed
partition wall just to the right of the left door, which opens onto C18
straight-flight stairs. Left unit divided by axial timber framed partition into
2 rooms, originally a buttery and pantry before it was heated from C18.
Quarter-turn stairs adjoin right wall of No.13. To left of central stone stack
is queen-post roof with halved and notched apex and trenched and staggered
purlins; roof to right of stack is obscured. Interior of No.12 not inspected but
likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SU3424793591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573146

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas