Oak Beam Cottage and Endways

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TL 00 SE 3/80

ABBOTS LANGLEY Hunton Bridge UPPER HIGHWAY (West side) No 25 (Oak Beam Cotttage) and No. 27 (Endways)

(Formerly listed a No. 25 and No. 27 (Endways) UPPER HIGHWAY, Hunton Bridge)

GV II House, now two dwellings. Early C17 extended later C17 and C20. Timber frame with whitewashed and rendered brick infill, casing and additions. Tiled roofs. Two builds of two bays each forming a T on plan. No. 27 to right is one storey and attic, rendered, with a central three-light and flanking two-light casements, leaded panes, timber glazing bars to right. Diagonally set eaves. Two C20 dormers one two-lights, one single light. A C20 bay added to right has a catslide roof over projecting entrance. No. 25 to left is two storeys with a taller ridge and projecting gable to front. Whitewashed brick ground floor with a three-light casement, exposed framing on first floor with a two-light casement, clasped purlin roof. Cross axial ridge stack with a rebuilt cap. Left return is brick with a roughcast first floor, two entrances and two-light C18/C19 casements. Rear gable end to No. 25 is brick with exposed posts on first floor, tilehung gable. Right return behind No. 27 has exposed framing on first floor. To rear of No. 27 a catslide roof over lean-to outshut, a strap hinged door and a small gabled dormer. Three-light casement with a cambered head, partially blocked.

Interior: No. 27 has a ground floor stop chamfered binding beam, jowled posts to cambered tie beams to clasped purlin roof with curved windbraces. No. 25 not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL0858600838