Pot House Farm Cottages

SK29NE STOCKSBRIDGE POT HOUSE LANE (south-west side).

4/180 Pot House Farm Cottages 15/1/85 GV II

Cottages and house,now 2 dwellings. Possibly C16 with C17, C18 and C19 extensions and alterations. Partly cruck-framed. Grits tone, part rubble, part coursed and squared. Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan : 2-bay cruck-framed cottage attached at right angles to C17 crosswing, the crosswing later extended into an L-shaped range. Cruck-framed cottage : 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Door to left in the position of a cross-passage. C20 casement to right, dormer window above door. Brick ridge stack, end stack to right. Crosswing : 2 storeys, 2 C17 bays with much altered later bay. C17 part has large quoins and retains several double-chamfered mullion windows in one side wall and the exposed gable, wood casements, lower gable window retains the only mullion. Simple kneeler and gable copings to left of exposed gable. Corniced ashlar ridge stack, other later stacks. A wing added to the crosswing in the late C18 or early C19 has a symmetrical gabled garden front with : quoins, two 6-pane sashes to each floor in square- faced surrounds linked by lintel bands. Shaped kneelers, gable copings, corniced ashlar stack to left at eaves. Interior : cruck cottage now used as store retains oak floorboards. Two cruck pairs largely obscured, single purlins. C17 crosswing has good early-C18 corbelled and corniced stone fireplace now wallpapered over.

Listing NGR: SK2662498001