Building record 1121300000 - 40-44 QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD, STEEPLE CLAYDON

Grade II. Row of 3 cottages, formerly a pair. C16, altered. Timber frame exposed in left gable and rear wall, remainder encased in brick. No. 40 has chequered brickwork dated T. 1. 1753 in blue headers on right gable. Nos. 42-44 have late C19 rat-trap bond brickwork. Thatched roof, half-hipped; brick stacks to gables and centre. 1 1/2 storeys, first floor windows in thatch. No. 40, to right, has 2 bays of 3-light leaded casements with timber lintels, off- centre C20 door and outshot to rear. Nos. 42-44, together, have 2 bays of similar 3-light windows with cambered heads to ground floor, paired leaded casement to upper right and C19 door in metal porch to right. C20 flat-roofed extension to left with cruck truss exposed in remainder of original gable above. Another cruck truss between left-hand bays. Sill beam in rear wall, probably re-used, has carved date 1639. RCHM II p.273 Mon 4 (B1).
Felling date of 1445 obtained for cruck from dendrochronological dating (B2).