Churchview

TL 5249 LITTLE ABINGTON CHURCH LANE (North Side)

9/33 No. 36 (Churchview)

GV II

House. C15, C16, rebuilt in late C17 with C20 renovations. Timber-framed and plastered, and partly exposed timber-frame at first floor. Thatched roofs, half hipped to left hand. Plastered brick ridge stack to left of centre and end stack to south gable of cross wing. Two storeys and cellar, three unit plan with main range to left hand totally rebuilt in late C17, and short C16 cross wing reroofed. C20 boarded door in original lobby entry position. Two ground floor casement windows and one first floor casement window to cross wing. Three first floor C18 iron casements with leaded lights. Interior: Three hearths include one in cross wing with chamfered elliptical arch. Exposed floor frames and wall frame showing reused timbers and part of the truss of the original medieval hall with wide tension braces from a central post. Openings for two mullioned windows- with rebates for shutters in rear gable of cross wing; 'YY James Bradford' on a timber in south wall. Two medieval stone niches, possibly introduced by Mr Ricketts, stone mason, (VCH) working on the church in the C19. During recent renovations carved timbers were introduced from Blackthorn Cottage, Earls Colne, Suffolk.

R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p13

Listing NGR: TL5304449271