Tudor House

STEVENTON THE CAUSEWAY SU4691 (South side) 12/70 No.67 (Tudor House) 06/08/52 (Formerly listed as No.67)

GV II*

House. Late C14, with mid C17 alterations. Painted brick to main range, with fragments of timber-framing; roughcast, probably on timber-framing, to cross-wing to right; old plain-tile roof; brick ridge stack to cross-wing; lateral stack to rear of main range. Hall and cross-wing plan with cross-passage, 2-storey, 2-window main range with 2-storey cross-wing. 4-panel part-glazed door to right of main range. Irregular fenestration of Cl9 casements with segmental brick heads to ground floor of main range, 2-storey Cl7 octagonal bay window to end of cross-wing with wood mullion and transom windows with carved mullions and transoms; gabled roof with pargetted inverted heart to gable. 3-light C18 casement to right of centre of main range. Angled oriel window to first floor left of centre with wood mullion windows and shaped bargeboards to gabled roof. Cross-gable to left. Interiors, Straight flight staircase from ground to first floors. Arch-braced base cruck to centre of main hall, range with deep tie and cusped principals above. Queen-post roof to cross-wing. Dining room, to ground floor of cross-wing has fielded panelling with false quartered marquetry and grained and marbled fireplace surround, having painted panel to overmantel. ("Smallar Domestic Architecture and Society in North Berkshire c.1300-c.1650, with special reference to Steventon" by C.R.J. Currie (Ph.D. thesis, Oxen. 1976)

Listing NGR: SU4675791739