Description

THORNDON HALL ROAD
TM 16 NW
3/76 Swan Hill Cottage
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GV II
House. C15. Timber framed and plastered, thatched roof. 1½ storeys. 3-cell
form with former open hall. Various old casement windows. One small eyebrow
dormer. Small C19 colourwashed brick lean-to set forward to left, with mid
C20 door in side wall. Internal stack with small shaft. Later stack against
front gable end. Largely intact frame visible inside. 2-centre arched cross-
entry doorway in front wall. Open truss removed, the cambered tie beam
repositioned against the stack. On the ground floor, one buttress-shafted
wallpost with the lower portion of a brace. Upper end wall of hall intact.
Medieval joists in parlour with trimming for stair. Service partition
removed. Stack inserted in lower bay of hall. Floor in hall inserted c.1600,
with axial bridging beam and chamfered joists. Service end has on-edge
pitchpine joists of C18 or early C19.

Listing NGR: TM1440368932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635466

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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