Church Cottage

UPPER SAPEY - SO 66 SE 815-/5/10006 Church Cottage - II House, formerly a school. Circa early C18. Red brick, English garden wall bond, rendered at front; front centrepiece Flemish bond brick. Rendered brick and timber-framed rear wing. Plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves courses. Brick gable end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan. Larger left room, hall and smaller parlour to right, both heated from gable end fireplaces. Direct entry into front of hall and dog-leg staircase at rear of parlour, behind which is shallow unheated 2-storey wing. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front with broad rendered corner pilasters and slightly advanced gabled brick bay at centre with C18 6-panel door in heavy bead-moulded frame and shaped canopy brackets supporting later gable with carved vine bargeboards; 2-light attic casement above with triangular head in gable; C20 3-light windows to left and right in segmental arch openings. Rear west, 2 small ground floor windows and timber-framed gable wing on left jettied out on first floor. INTERIOR: Various C18 panelled and plank doors. Left room has large unchamfered cross-beam and unchamfered joists; fireplace partly rebuilt and with plaster cove above. 2 large oak doorframes in central partition. Right hand room has unchamfered axial beam and joists and altered fireplace. Early Cl8 dog-leg staircase with rectangular balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. Closed roof trusses with queen-posts, high collar and king-posts above. NOTE: Said to have been a charity school and possibly endowed by John Addenbrook, rector of Upper Sapey 1683-1727.

Listing NGR: SO6831163654