Cottage Of Content

BALLINGHAM CP CAREY SO 53 SE 2/7 Cottage of Content 11.5.86

II

House, now public house. Probably C17 with later alterations. Sandstone rubble, brick, timber-frame with plaster and painted brick infill, Welsh slate and thatched roofs, brick stacks. Rectangular plan aligned north- west/south-east with cross gable at north-west end. Two storeys. South-west elevation has 2:2 windows, 2- and 3-light late C19 and mid-C20 casements, those to gable front under cambered brick heads, those to right-hand side with glazing bars and top vents, ledged mid-C20 door to left-hand side of gable, two doors, both mid- to late C20, juxtaposed under thatched canopy to centre of main range; exposed lozenge shaped panels with a pair of quadrant braces in gable. Mid-C19 lean-to on left side of gable. North- east elevation has whole of timber-framed gable exposed, four square panels from cill to wall-plate, V-struts above collar and two 2-light early C19 wrought-iron casements to first floor of gable. Interior noted as having heavy ceiling beams to ground floor. The Cottage of Content was previously know as The Mynors or Miners' Arms Inn. (RCHM Vol I, p 22).

Listing NGR: SO5632831021