Old Haugh End Old Haugh End Cottage

Old Haugh End and Old Haugh End Cottage

House, now subdivided into two dwellings. Early 17th century, possibly incorporating earlier material. Built of coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof.

The building comprises two storeys arranged in three gabled bays. The right bay, known as Old Haugh End Cottage, projects forward and includes a pent porch set in the angle with the main range. Quoins are present on the left bay. The porch features quoined details, a flat Tudor arch supported on the right by a shaped corbel, a shaped kneeler on the left, chamfered coping, and a chamfered quoined inner doorway with a similar arch and an original studded and hinged board door.

The right bay displays a 3 and 4-light chamfered mullion window on the ground floor and a similar 4-light window above, with chamfered coping and ball finials (one missing). Two brick ridge stacks stand on this bay. The central bay is dominated by a tall 7-light double-chamfered mullion window under a continuous dripmould, with a 3-light chamfered mullion-and-transom window and a short 3-light double-chamfered mullion window above, both fitted with hoodmoulds. The left bay has all double-chamfered mullioned windows. An 8-light window sits to the left of a quoined doorway; a dated panel on its lintel reads 16?? (possibly 1603 or 1635), both under a continuous hoodmould. Above are renewed 4-light and 5-light windows with hoodmoulds flanking a sundial projecting from the wall at an angle. The left and central bays feature continuous coping with a gutter spout in the valley and ball finials. On the ridge of the left bay stands a corniced stack with two rebuilt diamond-set flues; another stack rises over the central bay.

The rear elevation contains three gabled bays with double-chamfered mullion windows. The central bay projects furthest and is quoined, with a 6-light window to the left of a later doorway under a continuous hoodmould and, on the first floor, a 3-over-5-light window under a hoodmould with decorative stops. An external stack stands on the right; to the left return is a 2-light window under a return of hoodmould with decorative stop and a blocked oculus above. The right bay has a window masked by a 20th-century lean-to extension and a 2 and 3-light window above on the right. The right return shows double-chamfered mullion windows on the ground floor of 2, 4, 3, and 2 (blocked) lights, with shorter first-floor windows of 4 and 5 lights. The left return has 19th-century openings.

Interior of Old Haugh End Cottage: The front oak room was the birthplace of Archbishop Tillotson and was later decorated to commemorate this fact. A moulded stone fireplace has a cornice with pendants initialled 'JT' (John Tillotson) and dated 1630 (his birth year). An imported over-mantel features a classical battle scene. Small retractable wooden heads at the jambs possibly held a fire screen. The panelling below cill level is of fine quality, decorated with lozenge and other motifs. On one side, the panelling is taller and more ornate, with a cupboard and attached cist. The front wall window has a panelled soffit and frieze with grotesques. Part of the ceiling is elaborately moulded (imported). On the first floor are two cambered tie-beams.

The interior of Old Haugh End was not inspected at listing.

Historical Note: According to P.H. Kendall's study, the initials and date in the Oak Room appear to be by the same craftsmen responsible for those in Old Haugh End bearing the name Joshua Horton and dated 1703. Kendall suggests that Horton had the Oak Room inscriptions added. In 1705 Horton leased the property to Josias Stanfield, and the initials of Josias and Ann Stanfield appear on the sundial alongside this date.