The Cottage

HOPTON CANGEFORD

SO58SW The Cottage 482-1/2/148

II

Formerly known as: Castle House. House. C17 and C18. Timber-frame with painted brick infill panels and stone rubble. Plain-tile roof. Integral brick end stack. Projecting stepped stone eaves stack with diagonally-set brick shaft. T-shaped plan with probable old stone longhouse range, and timber-framed 2-bay cross wing. EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Front has stone range to left with boarded entrance door with flat canopy and 2-light casement; C19 brick dormer over with 2-light casement. To right is gable-end of cross wing: large square framing 3 panels high with single large tension brace, jowled posts, tie beam interrupted by 2-light casement, and collar. Cross wing return side: irregular square framing 3 panels high masked by stone stack to right and ground-floor 2-light casement to left. Rear: cross wing gable-end to left has jowled posts infilled with stone rubble and rendered gable-head, single trenched-purlin roof evident. C20 attic casement and 2-light casement at ground level. Rear of stone range masked by single-storey hipped and tiled lean-to extension with plain boarded door and 4-light casement. Gable of stone range to east covered by single-storey tile-roofed agricultural storage range reputed to form longhouse-type plan. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO5474580349