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KNIGHTON ON TEME CP BICKLEY Cottage SO 67 SW

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House. Early C17, restored late C20. Timber-framed, rendered and brick infill, brick plinth and machine-tiled roof. Three framed bays aligned north-east/south-west; large chimney with brick ridge stack between two south-westernmost bays; C20 wing of three framed bays adjoins north-west side of south-west bay and has an external chimney at its gable end. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate; south-west gable end has a jettied upper floor with a chamfered bressummer on shaped brackets; short straight braces in upper corners of jettied floor; collar and tie-beam trusses with four struts to collar (two struts now replaced by windows at south-west gable end), and V-strut in apex at north-east gable end. North-east entrance elevation: gable end of original part to left has plank weatherings at girding-beam, tie-beam and collar levels; square ground floor and attic light; lean-to beneath catslide roof in angle with C20 wing with two square windows; C20 wing has two ground floor 2-light casements, two gabled dormers with 2-light casements and a lean-to timber-framed porch to left (continuing roof-line of lean-to addition to original part) with a C20 door and a square light. Attic lights in gable ends. South-east elevation has three gabled dormers with 2-light casements. The building was being restored at time of survey (March 1985).

Listing NGR: SO6343070827