Description

GISLINGHAM WALSHAM ROAD (NORTH SIDE)
TM 07 SE
2/65 Orchard Cottage
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- II

Shown on OS Map as Back Street. House. Mid C16, stack inserted C17, reduced in
size and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched
machine tiled roof. 4 bays: storeyed hall with upper smoke bay to left,
service and parlour ends removed. 2 storeys and attic. C20 lattice leaded 2
and 3-light casements and double doors, C20 stained glass in left or smoke bay
into which a C17 axial ridge stack was inserted, 3 conjoined hexagonal shafts.
Left gable end has C20 stained glass in former first floor fireplace. Right
gable end has 2 lattice lights on ground floor with 4 centred arched heads of
original service doorways, exposed C19 purlins. To rear right a 1 storey and
attic C19 backhouse with an external end stack, C20 flat roofed addition to
far right. To rear left an entrance in a C20 glazed gabled porch, above a
fixed 6-light metal window. Interior: frame partially altered and concealed,
close studding, ground floor stop chamfered jowled storey posts with original
small arched braces to 2 stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, chamfered 4
centred arched adjacent service doorways at lower end. First floor reverse
curved arched braces in walling, some C17 panelling, side purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM0652070934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284591

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014