Spring Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjoining West

SP 68 SW NORTH KILWORTH CRAMER LANE (north side)

5/31 Spring Cottage including outbuilding adjoining west

• II

House with attached outbuilding. C17 or possibly earlier, altered in C18 and C19. Timber-framed and cob, faced and partly rebuilt in painted brick. Gable-ended thatched roof with deep eaves reclad in corrugated asbestos sheets; outbuilding has corrugated iron sheet roof. Brick axial and gable end stacks. PLAN: 3-room house, the centre and left-hand rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack; the right-hand (east) room has a gable end stack. Integral outbuilding open to roof at left (west) end. INTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4 window south front, plus outbuilding to left. Ground floor 3 large C19 4-pane sashes. 3 small C19 2-light attic casements above, 2 of which break eaves, and larger sash to left. Doorways to left and right, the right panelled, the left with weatherboarded porch and canopy. Outbuilding on left weatherboarded and with large double doors. Rear elevation not inspected. INTERIOR: All 3 ground floor rooms have boxed - in axial beams, said to be chamfered. The centre room has large fireplace with high level chamfered timber lintel covered by circa C18 moulded mantel shelf. The roof is ceiled and only the side purlins are exposed in chambers. The outbuilding has cob walls and jowled post at back with brace to tie-beam and large principles on to which is lapped an halved collar; originally a closed truss.

Listing NGR: SP6176983396