BERKSHIRE This Table Includes Numerous Buildings That Are Now in the Enlarged County of Oxfordshire
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Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 INDEX OF TREE-RING DATED BUILDINGS IN ENGLAND COUNTY LIST approximately in chronological order, revised to VA51 (2020). © Vernacular Architecture Group 2021 These files may be copied for personal use, but should not be published or further distributed without written permission from the Vernacular Architecture Group. Always access these tables via the VAG website. Unauthorised copies released without prior consent on search engines may be out of date and unreliable. Since 2016 a very small number of construction date ranges from historical sources have been added. These entries are entirely in italics. Before using the index you are recommended to read or print the introduction and guidance, which includes a key to the abbreviations used on the tables. BERKSHIRE This table includes numerous buildings that are now in the enlarged county of Oxfordshire. County : Felling date Placename Address VA ref Description / keywords NGR Historic range HE ref & later Other refs Berks 1225 Windsor The Round Tower, 26.60 Oxf Re-used joist SU 970770 Windsor Castle Berks 1226 -51 Windsor 25, The Cloisters, 36.85 Notm Chamber block? Documentary evidence of alterations 1220-40. Remains of a scissor- SU 970770 Windsor Castle CfA 82/2004 braced coupled rafter roof employing open notched lap joints. Berks 1243 – 47 Harwell Winchester’s Manor 12.39 Fl (1) Aisled. Hall. Reversed assembly. Passing braces, straight arcade braces to arcade SU 492888 (Oxf) (Lime Tree House) plate, notched lap-joints, coupled rafters with collars and ashlar pieces. For inserted base cruck see 1294 -1306. Berks 1256 -88 Radley 104 Lower Radley MPHE RAD-B Phase 0 re-used cranked cruck blade 1256 -88. (For phase 1 see 1513 /14). SU 532987 (Oxf) 22.46 Notm Berks 1282 -86 Aston Tirrold Tirrold House, MPHE AST-A Chamber block. Box-framed. Very low ground floor. Large panels, unjowled wall SU 556858 (Oxf) Aston Street (formerly 23.58 posts, straight up-braces rise to notched lap-joints in wall plates. (For later roof & hall The Cottage) bay see 1518/19 & for wing see 1620). Berks 1284 /85 West Hagbourne York Farm 24.55 Oxf Base cruck hall; large wall panels, long straight up-braces. Frame on padstones, SU 512878 (Oxf) (2) arcade plate at top of blade, under tiebeam; crown post and king-strut. West service bay with hipped roof. Upper end east wing half-hipped, applied jetty, crown post, king strut. Berks 1291 Abingdon 15 High Street (former 45.122 Oxf West range, jettied, dragon ties. Roof includes 4 trusses, 3 with octagonal crown posts, SU 497970 (Oxf) Lion Inn) (3) 4-way bracing to collars and collar purlins. (For scissor-braced truss see 1500 /01). Berks 1291 /92 Great Coxwell Great Coxwell Barn 45.123 Oxf (Replaces VA 11.34). Aisled stone barn. Inner & outer wall-plates, sole plates, ashlar SU 269940 (Oxf) (Abbey Grange Barn) pieces. Raked struts to aisle rafters. Parallel straight braces from unjowled arcade (Nat Trust) posts to tiebeams and arcade plates in reversed assembly. Cranked struts from tiebeams to compound rafters with cleats. Upper extended collars support short crown struts up to high short collars, straight braces up to ridge plate. Straight windbraces up to side purlins which pass over cleats. Intermediate trusses include inner principals which are birdsmouthed to arcade plates and which support braces out to short truncated tiebeams. Berks 1299 Steventon Tudor House, 67 The MPHE STE-B Box-framed wing to former hall. Un-jowled posts, dragon ties, tiebeam, scissor-bracing SU 467917 (Oxf) Causeway 41.110 Oxf in gable, crown strut with mortice for collar-plate. (Replacement hall dated 1355/56 (4) (qv). For reconstruction of wing see 1448/49). Berks 1352 -1355 Windsor 8 Canons’ Cloisters, 37.110 Sh On documentary evidence, canons’ lodging of 1352-55 by Ed III. Box framed, jettied. SU 973768 (doc) Windsor Castle Earliest framed collegiate architecture in Britain? First-storey floor boards have a felling date of after 1298. Berks 1294 -1306 Harwell Lime Tree House 14.62 (5) Base cruck, arch-braced tiebeam, crown post, collar purlin, splayed and tabled scarf. SU 492888 (Oxf) (Winchester’s Manor) For primary aisled hall see 1243 -47. Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Berks 1294 -1308 Peasemore Peasemore House 40.122 Oxf Earliest roof has crown post with straight braces and close-set rafter pairs. (Later SU 460770 queen strut roof with clasped purlins failed to date). Berks 1289 -1321 Harwell Tibberton Cottage, 49.129 Notm 1 surviving bay of a 2-bay cruck open hall. Half-hipped truss, 1 elbowed blade, 1 SU 491888 (Oxf) OxCal Wellshead Lane MPHE HAR-E curved blade, ‘double collar’. Tiebeam halved across blades, collars & straight braces are tenoned. (Formerly Baker’s Cottage: succeeds 1282+, VA 14.62) Berks 1313/ 14 to South Moreton Manor House, Paper 50.113 Oxf East wing with primary first floor with splayed scarf in axial beam. Crown-post roof with SU 562882 (Oxf) 1314 /15 Mill Lane soulaces. (For base cruck hall range see 1397 /98, & for alterations to E wing see 1631). Berks 1317 /18 Sutton Courtenay Manor Cottage, High MPHE SUC-A Half-hipped, thatched. Large wall panels (no midrails) with long straight braces, open SU 503941 (Oxf) Street 23.49 Oxf cruck truss with elbowed blades, arch-braced collar, saddle (type C apex): tenoned (6) side purlins, ridge plate, lapped windbraces. Contemporary 3-bay wing with straight wall braces, may have had front wall jetty, great chamber: collar purlins jointed into sides of crown posts, dragon ties. Trait de Jupiter scarfs. Fire-damaged in 1990. Berks 1319 -1320 Slough Upton Court 19.46 Notm Hall - aisled and hammer-beam. Arch-braces to tiebeam, crown posts. SU 980791 (7) Berks 1323 /24 Harwell Middle Farm 23.48 Oxf S range: crown post, dragon ties. Also see 1367-71 for replacement open hall. SU 492893 (Oxf) (Bayllols Manor) (8) Berks 1305 -57 Harwell Pomander House, MPHE HAR-D Cruck truss T2 has (secondary?) tiebeam, arch-braced collar, king strut to saddle, SU 493895 (Oxf) radiocarbon Townsend (9) single tier of side purlins, ridge plate, curved windbraces. T1 is an ‘open plank end truss’. Berks 1331 to 1333 - Sutton Courtenay The Manor House, 48.117 Oxf For MP & JP John Brounz? Roof over N service wing with 3 bays of chambers above SU 502941 (Oxf) 34 Church Street (10) includes arch-braced collars, clasped purlins, tenoned curved wind-braces. (C. Currie proposed that this wing was contemporary with the (undated) base cruck open hall). Berks 1335 /36 East Hendred Hendred House - 33.83 Oxf Box-framed. Unjettied. 4-bay chamber on 1st floor. Dragon ties. Central truss: crown- SU 460885 (Oxf) South wing (11) strut with short braces up to the collar: clasped purlins and a ridge-plate. One gable has crown-strut with curved braces down to tiebeam. This date is for a first-floor side girt. Altered 1375 /1407 (qv). Berks 1323 -49 Long Wittenham 33 High St MPHE LOW-C Only W bay remains of 2-bay open hall house. W truss ½-hipped? Cruck truss T2 has SU 548938 (Oxf) cranked collar, saddle apex (type C) pegged for a ridge plate. Berks 1337 + Windsor Windsor Castle 28.138 Sh Great Kitchen. ‘Lower wall plate’, but roof rebuilt – see 1489, 1577 ... SU 971770 Berks 1338 -40 St. Helen Without Calcott’s Barn, 48.117 Oxf 5 bay stone barn (for Abingdon Abbey or a tenant). 4 raised cruck trusses with arch- SU 484980 (Oxf) Farringdon Rd., braced collars, upper collars. Side purlins: upper tier trenched, lower on backs of Shippon blades. Type C apexes. Bridled scarf, edge-halved scarf. 1 timber (1251 -83) re-used. Berks 1350 /51 Steventon 39 The Causeway MPHE STE-E Cruck-framed range. Truss T8 includes cruck spurs, arch-braced collar, saddle. SU 469918 (Oxf) radiocarbon Trenched side purlins, windbraces, ridge plate. (For box-framed wing see 1364 /65 and for kitchen range see 1518 /19). Berks 1351 1352 Windsor Windsor Castle: 34.109 Oxf Primary phase timbers accord with documentary dates. Also see {1298 after 1400 pre}, SU 968770 Canon’s Cloister 1439/40 and 1476 -1508. Berks 1352 /53 Windsor 6 & 7 Canons’ Cloister 43.97 Oxf Primary phase of hall range. Roof originally had ‘inset principals connected with SU 968770 Windsor Castle saddles carrying a square-set ridge, trenched purlins, trestle-sawn windbraces. (Also see 1479 /80). Berks 1315 -47 1337 Steventon Priory Cottages 35.100 Oxf SW range. Large panels, lodged joists, dragon ties. Jowled crown posts with down- SU 465474 (Oxf) -69 braces: in open truss, 4 up-braces over cranked tiebeam. (Also see 1443/4, and 1461 /2 for (S) hall range.) Berks 1352 -1355 Windsor 8 Canons’ Cloisters, 37.110 Sh On documentary evidence, canons’ lodging of 1352-55 by Ed III. Box framed, jettied. SU 973768 (doc) Windsor Castle Earliest framed collegiate architecture in Britain? First-storey floor boards have a felling date of after 1298. Berks 1354 /55 Windsor Windsor Castle 26.60 Oxf Samples from Edward III lodgings. SU 970770 Berks 1355 +0 Windsor Windsor Castle 21.47 Oxf Various samples in the Round Tower. Also see 1578. SU 970770 Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Berks 1355 / 56 Steventon Tudor House, 67 The MPHE STE-B Hall range. Full cruck or two-tier cruck? Arch-braced collar tenoned into top of blades, SU 467917 (Oxf) Causeway 20.44 Notm cusped upper principals to saddle. T1 has inner principals on dropped tiebeam. (For wing see 1299 & for phase 3 see 1448 /49). Berks 1352 -62 Long Wittenham Terret Close, High MPHE LOW-A ½-hipped roof, thatched.