Description

TL 4843 ICKLETON CHURCH STREET
(North side)
21/226 No. 18 (Mowbrays)
22.11.67
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, with late C17 rebuilding and C19
alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered; red brick. Plain
tiled roofs. Ridge stack to right had; main ridge stack with two diagonal
shafts dated 1690 - scratched on plasters, and tall rear stack to right
hand. Two storeys. Original hall rebuilt c.1690 flanked by two lower
unequal cross wings originally jettied, extended to west by one storey and
attic kitchen range, and two storey early C16 wing jettied originally on
three sides to the east. West cross wing with one casement and one first
floor three-light horizontal sliding sash window; main range with moulded
wooden eaves cornice, moulded brick band between floors and plinth; C19 door
and doorcase to left hand, two ground floor and two first floor recessed
twelve-paned hung sash windows with gauged brick arches. East cross wing
with two large twelve-paned hung sash windows to east wing. Plaster panelin
north elevation restored (1968) and plaster cast made of original frieze.
East wind plastered jetty joists with two corner braces to enriched carved
posts. Interior: Rooms to main range and east cross wing with late C17
cornices and C18 panelling of two heights forming window seats in main rooms,
chimney stack rebuilt for C19 passage at ground floor and panelling
refitted. C17 refitted oak and pine panelling. Bolection moulded chimney
piece; C18 closed string staircase. Mowbrays RCHM report 1949. One of the
manors of Ickleton, owned by Clare Hall Cambridge from 1819.
RCHM Report 1949
VCH Vol. VI p.235

Listing NGR: TL4946743820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550840

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover