3 AND 4

ACTON BURNELL C.P. ACTON PIGOTT SO 50 SW 6/22 Nos. 3 and 4 - GV II House. Late C17 with mid- to late C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, partly rebuilt and extended in red brick; plain tile roofs. L-plan; one framed bay with flush gabled cross- wing of 2 framed bays to right and additions to left. One storey and attic and 2 storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice; 4 gabled eaves dormers with 2-light wooden casement, 3 to right C20; brick ridge stack off-centre to left and external brick end stack to rear of right- hand cross-wing. Framing: square panels, 3 and 4 from sole-plate to wall-plate; long straight tension braces; right-hand cross-wing has exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and V-struts. 6-window front; C20 two-light wooden casements, small 2-light C19 fire window third from left; 3 first-floor C20 casements to right and small C19 casement off-centre to left; pair of boarded doors to right. Adjoining C20 garage block set back to left and C20 conservatory between wings at rear. Interior not inspected but chamfered beams and large open fireplace with chamfered lintel were noted. This house was probably that formerly known as Glebe Farmhouse, on the site of a medieval parsonage and said to have been an ale house in 1638. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.6.

Listing NGR: SJ5410902744