Description

TL 1724
8/91

PRESTON
THE GREEN
(West side)
Fig Tree Cottage

GV
II

House. C16 former open hall house, floor and chimney inserted in late
C16, S bay with its rear outshut probably C17, C18 brick casing of walls
with wall heightened in framing to 2-storeys in older part of house.
Timber frame roughcast with ground floor front of red brick in
Flemish-bond. Steep old red tile roof, part of rear slope slated. A
2-storeys house facing E, partly overlapped at N by a low link and Vine
Cottage. 2 windows on each floor. 3-lights flush casement windows with
rectangular quarries in the leaded glazing. Canted oriel window to left
of battened front door. Small window to right of door. Internal chimney
a third from N end marking the older part of the house. Internal gable
chimney added to formerly unheated S bay. Interior has studs on former S
wall of hall exposed as a screen with peg hole in post for bench
support. Elaborate moulded axial beam with central roll, and ogee,
reserved chamfer and hollow on each side. Scratch moulding on soffit of
joists. Beam carried on post rather than jointed into horizontal timbers
of original frame. A 2-bays hall originally. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1798024714

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396488

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)