Langtree Cottages

SU 68 SE 5/83

CHECKENDON Langtree Cottages Nos 1-3 (consecutive)

GV II

Three cottages. 1906 by Maxwell Ayrton; minor late C20 alterations. Timber-framed with lath and plaster infill, on brick plinth; plain tile roof; brick stacks. L-shaped plan. Four irregular bays of one storey with attic, with two-storey wing projecting on right. In Arts and Crafts style.

Timber frame has sole plate; narrow rectangular panels; jettied wing with arch braces, tie-beam, collar and king-post to gable. Wooden casement windows with rectangular or diamond-leaded glazing. Board stable doors with strap hinges. Chimneys have pilaster strips, bands and cornices.

Main range, from left: two-light window at left end, returning round corner for three lights; door (to No. 1); three-light window; door (to No. 2); right bay recessed with arch-braced bressummer and two-light window. Coved plastered eaves. Two hipped-roofed two-light dormers. Roof at left end hipped with gablet, broken by corbelled, gabled, dormer, and with lateral stack with offsets. Ridge stack and one to rear right.

Wing: window of three lights to ground floor, five lights above; left return has door and windows of two and five lights to ground floor, five and two lights above; right return has door inside 1988 brick addition which is in keeping.

Rear: five bays, in line, the right bay with jettied first floor and gabled. Two doors; various windows. Lateral stack between left bays.

Interior not fully inspected, but No. 1 has fireplace with corbelled timber bressummer, and No. 3 has board doors with ironware, original dresser in front room, beams.

Listing NGR: SU6636082958