Condover Court

SJ 40 NE CONDOVER C.P. CONDOVER

5/76 Condover Court (formerly - listed as The Small House) 29.1.52 GV II

House. C14 or C15, re-modelled C17 with considerable later additions and alterations, chiefly of 1876-7. Timber framed, partly of cruck construction, with plaster and late C19 red brick infill, machine tile roofs. Hall of 4 framed bays with cross-wing projecting to right; late C19 additions at right-angles to rear on left of hall range and behind cross-wing. 2 storeys; framing: largely late C19, close-set vertical posts with middle rails and short curved tension braces but massive true cruck truss with curved tension braces exposed to gable end of hall range; fenestration all late C19, 2 full gabled dormers to left and right of hall range with wooden mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor, 2 to left and one of 5 lights to right of central lean-to timber framed porch (also 1876-7); cross-wing has 5-light wooden mullion window to jettied first floor and a mullioned and transomed bay window to ground floor. 2 late C19 brick ridge stacks with dentilled bands to hall range and a prominent moulded brick lateral stack with datestone "R.C/1876-7" on right wall of cross-wing. Interior: not inspected but known to contain 3 true cruck trusses, 2 with Alcock apex type L2 and one (exposed externally to gable end of hall range) with apex type V. Alcock (1981), p.143.

Listing NGR: SJ4942806053