Description

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST OLD HOUSE LANE, ASHURST PARK

7/539 Priestwood Cottage

II

Small house, formerly on the Ashurst Park Estate. C17 core refurbished and
enlarged in the early C19, some C20 modernisation. Ground floor level is
brick; C17 section is English bond, the C19 extensions in Flemish bond brick,
both including burnt headers. Timber framing above is hung with peg-tile in
the C17 section, exposed in the C19 section. Brick stack, maybe on a stone
base, and brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: L-plan house facing south with a 3-room plan. The left (west) end room
is built like a crosswing projecting a short distance forward. An axial stack
between the left and centre rooms probably serves back-to-back fireplaces.
Unheated right end service room. Present layout is the result of the C19
modernisation of a C17 2-room plan house. The centre heated room is C17 and
the left end room was probably an unheated service room. In the C19 this
service end room was enlarged and probably given a fireplace built onto the
back of the old stack. The right end room was also added in the C19.

Exterior: Irregular 1:1:1-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements
containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Front doorway is right of centre
and contains a C19 plank door with coverstrips. The first floor front end of
the left crosswing is jettied out on a moulded timber bressummer. It is
gabled and filled with ornamental timber framing with close studding and
curving braces. A panel below the window includes the monogram GF in large
letters. Plain bargeboards to the gable. First floor chamber at the right end
is timber framed and also jetties forward on a moulded bressummer and has a
gable over. It is less ornate than the framing the other end. Main roof is
hipped to left and gable-ended to right.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but the
owner claims that C17 carpentry shows in the centre of the house.

Listing NGR: TQ5344039570

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533835

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)