Maentwlch

In the entry for the CIVIL PARISH OF BACTON 5/6 Mantooth

The address shall be amended to read CIVIL PARISH OF BACTON Maentwlch

SO 33 SE BACTON CP -

5/6 Mantooth

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• II

Cottage. Possibly late C17 - early C18, extended c1976. Rubble, timber- frame, stone tiled roof, brick infill panels, stone end chimney with bread oven and detached brick shaft to west, brick end stack to east. One storey and attic, 3 bays, rubble base with weathered top extends to cills of upper windows; regularly spaced C19 casements: two 6-paned to ground floor and two 4-paned to attic, entrance via C19 porch and ledged door to west gable end. Frame: one panel high above rubble base to front, otherwise 3 panels high from cill to wall-plate. Interior: cyma stop chamfers to beams of the 2 ground floor rooms. Ledged C18 - early C19 door to cellar beneath C20 extension. Completely stone flagged floors to C17 - C18 part. Very heavy slightly cambered tie-beams forming A frame with collars. Small first floor chamber to north side of western chimney roughly above bread oven. The building lies in the area affected by Rowland Vaughan's water-works and irrigation scheme of the late C16 when sluices and a "Trench Royal" were introduced in the west side of the Golden Valley. (Woolhope Club Transactions, 1936, p 35, and 1974, pp 253/5).

Listing NGR: SO3667634624