Description

TL 3856 COMBERTON SWAYNES LANE
(South Side)

9/45 No. 2 (Dormers)

GV II

Cottage. Early-mid C16 and two later enlargements of C17 and C18.
Timber-framed, plaster and roughcast rendered, and reed thatched roofs.
Original ridge stack of narrow, red brick, broad mortar courses, and rebuilt
upper courses of grey brick. Original cottage of three bay, lobby entry
plan, extended by a fourth bay to one end probably in C17. One storey and
attic. Three dormers. Three casements and doorway in original location
opposite the stack. In the rear wall an early C19 horizontall sliding sash
with segmental arched top panes. Bread oven projects from rear wall. At the
rear is an outhouse or service wing, originally detached, now converted to
living and linked to the C16 cottage. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and
reed thatched with single flue stack of grey brick, probably early C19. One
storey and attic. Two dormers. Three ground floor casements and originally
two doors, one now blocked. Inside: Timber-framing of C16 cottage of
heavy, uniform scantling similar to that of C16 bay at No. 69 Swaynes Lane
(qv). Floor frame of one end bay exposed. Broad stop-chamfered main beam
with unmoulded joists laid on edge. The main beam in the centre room has
leaf stop chamfered main beam. Abutting inglenook hearths. Roof trusses of
through-purlin type and original half-hipping to ends. Jowelled heads to
principal posts. The late C17 single bay addition to the end has timbers of
slender scantling.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(10)

Listing NGR: TL3824856017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455070

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)