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MEDMENHAM HENLEY ROAD SU 88 SW 8/10000 Lodge Hill Cottage II House. Early/mid C16, remodelled in early/mid C17 with later alterations and mid C20 extensions. Timber-framing with C17-C18 brick nogging exposed to front and right gable; early C19 colarwashed flemish bond brick to rear: gabled plain tile roof; C17 brick front lateral stack finished with mid C20 brick and with tiled brick bread- oven projection on clunch plinth to front. Mid C20 extensions of English bond brick with tile-clad first floor to rear right, gabled plain tile roofs and brick stacks. PLAN: original 3-unit plan with central open hall remodelled in early/mid C17 with inserted hall floor and stack; mid C20 rear extensions make U-plan. 2 storeys. 2-window, garden front has mid C20 leaded casements. Similar casements elsewhere, and main entry in rear left wing. Right gable end has C17 brick quoining to flint rubble wall on ground floor. INTERIOR: room to right has chamfered joists and transverse beam with sawn-off pegs for wattle and daub partition, probably C18. Former hall to centre has large open fireplace with C17 brick, chamfered bressumer and fine reset Charles I fireback. Room to left has C17 joists, with sawn-off tenons from former partition to axial beam. 3-bay smoke- blackened roof with windbracing to clasped purlins and collar trusses with central upright to tie beam, jowled wall posts and queen-post truss to right gable.

Listing NGR: SU8035484532

External Links

• Wikidata Q26517942

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