Ash Tree Cottage

SP7006SE 1707-0/9/10002

THAME AYLESBURY ROAD (West side) No.23 Ash Tree Cottage

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House. C17, extended in circa late C17 or C18 and with circa C20 addition. Timber-framed with rendered panels, rebuilt in brick and rendered on the ground floor. Clay plain tile roofs with gabled ends to front and rear. Brick axial stack. PLAN: C17 timber-framed range of one bay, end on to the road, and with a circa late C17 or C18 timber-framed range at the rear of similar size, and what appears to be a C20 small extension on the right [north] side with a porch at the front. The front room is heated from an axial stack at the back, at the junction of the two ranges. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-bay gabled front, the larger left gable is the original C17 house and has exposed corner-posts and 2 C20 casements on the ground floor and a large C20 3-light casement on the first floor. Timber-framing exposed on the left [south] return where there is a small single-light window under the eaves. The smaller gable on the right of the front is circa C20 extension and has a gabled porch with an elliptical arch. The rear has rendered gable and C20 casements. INTERIOR: Front room has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops at front end, exposed unchamfered joists and rebuilt brick fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with long cyma stops. Rear room has chamfered cross-beam without steps. On first floor both front and back ranges have jowled posts and exposed wall-framing. Roof structure exposed in the front chamber, tie-beams, collars and clasped purlins, the front truss with curved braces and studs, the back truss with queen-posts; wind-braces. The roof over the back range also appears to be intact.

Listing NGR: SP7057406467