Description

ROLLRIGHT CHURCH END
SP3231-3331 Great Rollright
12/126 Brasenose Cottage
27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Wishart's
Farm Cottages)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. 1656 on datestone; altered C18 and extended C20. Coursed
limestone rubble with wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings;
Stonesfield-slate and asbestos-slate roof with rubble-and-brick stacks. L plan.
2 storeys. 2-window front has 3-light windows with renewed casements, and a
central door above which is the datestone inscribed "IVNE 20/1656". Wing
projects from the left and has 2 old 3-light leaded casements, plus a secondary
entrance in the angle with a C20 stone porch. Rear retains four 2-light
stone-mullioned windows with labels and has a small 2-storey extension. Roof has
gable parapets to the main range and 4 stacks, mostly with renewed brick shafts
on rubble plinths. Interior: large open fireplace with renewed bressumer and a
bread oven plus an earlier stone recess which may be the original oven; smaller
open fireplace with cambered bressumer.

Listing NGR: SP3260231407

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496404

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)