Description

LAMBERHURST MOUNT PLEASANT TQ 63 NE (north side) 3/197 The Owl House II

House. C16. Timber framed and clad with red and blue chequered brick on ground floor with tile hung first floor and plain tiled roof. Two storeys on sandstone plinth with bellcast to first floor and with roof half-hipped to left with stacks to rear and projecting cluster at end right. Wooden casements of 3, 2, 2 and 3 lights on first floor and of 4, 2 and 4 lights on ground floor with half-glazed door to centre left with sidelights. Lean-to outshot at right and catslide outshot to rear with C20 single storey service wing. Interior: full frame visible with large stone inglenook to projecting stack, and unusual revolving circular hanger set into main beam of end left bay said to be for hanging skeins of wool from. Archival material records the house in 1522; named for the 'Owlers' or smugglers who used the property C16-C18.

Listing NGR: TQ6638237289

External Links

• Wikidata Q26371688

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)