Description

SU 9079
22/7
25.3.55

BRAY
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Lych Gate (formerly
Listed as Lych Gate,
St Michael's Cottage)

G.V.
II*

Gate-house, probably a chantry-house with lych gate under. Early C15, altered early C20. Timber
frame, part render, part brick infill. Old tile gabled roof. Rectangular plan of 4 framed bays
with east wing listed separately (22/8) forming an L-plan. Jettied front and back; passage
through under with lych gate on north. 2 storeys. One tall early C20 chimney on west wall with
clay pot. Diamond-leaded casement windows. South front: gabled 4-light oriel window on first
floor with small tiled pent roof and coved apron; moulded wooden cill and 4 carved brackets. 2-
light side-sliding casement on right with folding panelled shutters on each side; archway with 4
centred head with arched spandrels, old brickwork below. North front: gabled with C19 carved
bargeboard. 3-light sliding casement oriel window on first floor with small, tiled, pent roof.
long, fixer window on ground floor with 9 turned wooden balusters in front on cill, within depth of
reveal. 4-centred, hollow chamfered wooden arch on right with moulded spandrels over lych gate.
Passage through has C17 brickwork on each side and long tension braces with entrance door on east
wall; stone setts on floor. Wooden lych gate and fence with middle rail and flat plain balusters.
Interior: good quality timber frame exposed with redundant crown post roof trusses and arched
windbraces, chamfered.
VCH (Vol. III), p.93, B.O.E. (Berkshire), p.100

Listing NGR: SU9017279645

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546817

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)