Description

BLACKMORE

TL60SW SPRIGG'S LANE
723-1/2/43 (East side)
20/02/76 Nos.1 AND 2
Ruskett's Cottages
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
SPRIGGS LANE, Blackmore
Nos.1 AND 2
Rusketts Cottages)

II

House, now 2 houses. c1500, altered in C17, C18 and C20.
Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles.
Small medieval house of 4 bays facing W, extended to right by
one bay c1984. C16 axial stack in middle of whole range. No.1
comprises the part to left of the middle of the stack, No.2
comprises the part to the right.
One storey with attics, No.1 has a C20 single-storey wing to
rear of the left bay, and a lean-to extension to right of it.
No.2 has a C20 single-storey wing to rear right, and a lean-to
extension to left of it, roofed with felt. Four C20 casements,
and 2 more in gabled dormers (one in each house). Two C20
doors. Gambrel roof. Shaft cement-rendered.
INTERIOR: at the time of inspection, January 1989, No.1 was
undergoing major renovation, with the frame fully exposed
internally; No.2 was fully plastered internally. No.1
comprises (up to tie-beam level) the parlour/solar bay and
hall of the medieval house, the stack being in the shorter
right bay of the 2-bay hall. Jowled posts, heavy studding,
cambered tie-beam. In the rear wall of the left bay is a
framed original window, with 4 diamond mortices at top and
bottom. The floor of the left bay has been rebuilt in the C18,
with plain joists of vertical section. The right bay has an
inserted floor of the C17, with a chamfered axial beam and
plain joists of vertical section, of heavier quality than in
the left bay. The roof has been wholly rebuilt in the C18 in
gambrel form. The C16 stack has been altered in the C18, the
size of the hearth reduced with C18 bricks, but retaining the
original mantel beam, with another below it. No.2 is wholly
plastered internally, but is believed to comprise the service
bay of the medieval house, and has an extension of 1984 to
right of it. One jowled post outlined in plaster in front
wall. C20 grate.

Listing NGR: TL6120702314

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491658

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)