Vale View Cottages

In the entry for:-

MARTON CP CLAY LANE SJ66NW 4/50 Vale View Cottages II

shall be amended to read:-

SJ66NW MARTON CP STATION ROAD 4/50 Vale View Cottages II

MARTON CP. CLAY LANE SJ66NW 4/50 Vale View Cottages II Pair of Cottages, early C17 with later alterations and additions. Thought to have originated as a longhouse derivative. Brick in English Garden Wall Bond with some timbers, thatched roof, now covered by asbestos-cement sheets. Single storey and attic, 3 bays, the original cottage, north-east, is only one bay. Boarded doors front and rear and flush casements, the north-east cottage has multiple glazing front and rear. Truss with "V" struts exposed in north-east gable. At the rear both corner posts of the original cottage remain as do the front and rear wall-plates, morticed for small framing. First floor windows are in the south-west gable and raking dormers. Gable barge boards. The south-west cottage has a gable-end stack whereas the north-east cottage has a party wall stack which would have originally been at its south-west gable. Interior: The north-east cottage is baffle entry into the single ground floor room with the winder staircase rising to the left of the front door against the stack. Beam over a wide and deep fireplace and a single chamfered ceiling beam. In the single room attic a "V" strutted truss, similar to the gable truss, is over the party wall. Thatched rafters and exposed purlins with wind braces, cleft thatch and rafters. In the south-west cottage the use of primitive tree purlins suggests an agricultural use or later Cl7 construction, it is more altered than the smaller cottage and is divided into rooms but has exposed beams, a cottage staircase, boarded doors and cleft thatch rafters.

Listing NGR: SJ 61742 68401