Description

SU4988
10/149

HARWELL
WELLSHEAD LANE
(South side Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage)

GV
II*

House, now 2 dwellings. c.1295 rear range; late C17 front range and encasement
of rear range; C19 and C20 alterations. Render on timber-framing with areas of
stone rubble and painted brick old plain-tile roof; brick ridge stack to
centre, end stack to left. Rear: painted brick; old plain-tile roof, hipped in
left. 2-storey, 2-window range. Sash door to left of centre. Irregular
fenestration of mainly Cl9 casements. Interior of Tibbleton Cottage: contains
one cruck truss with a tie beam and two collars, the lower being arch-braced;
and there are remains of another cruck truss. These trusses have been
radio-carbon dated as having a probable felling date of 1275. This is the
earliest timber-framed true cruck house so far identified in England.
("Two Early Cruck Houses in North Berkshire Identified by Radiocarbon" by C.R.J.
Currie and J.M. Fletcher in "Medieval Archaeology" Vol.16 1972 pp136-142)

Listing NGR: SU4916888872

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549770

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)