Building record 1027100000 - THE PITCHINGS, SPURT STREET

Summary

Medieval to seventeenth century timber-framed and thatched cruck-built house

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1158766: THE PITCHINGS
  • Planning Notification Area: Late Medieval timber-framed building at The Pritchings, Cuddington

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Medieval and C17. Timber framed with colourwashed plastered infilling. West elevation rendered. Half-hipped thatch roof. 3 bays and one and a half storeys. Two board doors one at right of centre bay and one off centre in right bay. Left bay has 2-light off centre casement. Flat roofed canted bay to left in centre bay. Small staircase window to left in right bay. Three 2-light eaves dormers. All leaded casements. Stack at left in right hand bay and to left gable. Cruck truss exposed in east or left gable. Interior: 4 cruck trusses. Richly moulded spine beam in ground floor room, others chamfered and stopped. RCHM I. 113. MON.17 (B1).
1 cruck truss with curved blades, half-hipped in end wall. Source: A.G. Taylor (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC19924 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Ashendon &C. p42.
  • <2>SBC13160 Bibliographic reference: RCHM I P113.
  • <3>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 73854 11122 (point)
Civil Parish CUDDINGTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 12 2022 8:29PM

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