The Cottage

HODNET C.P. HODNET

SJ 6028-6128 13/65 10.2.59

The Cottage

GV II

House. Mid- and late C16 (porch dated 1546) with mid-C17 additions. Timber framed with painted brick nogging on roughly dressed red sandstone plinth. C20 machine tile roofs. Framing: square panels (3 and 4 from wall plate to ground plate) with corner braces. Porch with closely- spaced studs and middle rails, C16 hall range of 2 framed bays, C17 projecting gabled cross wing to right of 2 framed bays, and C16 porch in angle. One storey and attic over basement with 2-storey porch. C19 external brick end stack to right of hall range with 4 circular shafts and C19 external lateral brick-stack at rear with 2 circular shafts. Raking semi-dormer off-centre to left, altered in mid-C20. 3:1:2 window front; C20 two- and 3-light wooden casements with C20 stepped wooden cills. Timber framed gabled porch consisting of jetted first floor with moulded bressumer (dated 1546) on shaped brackets and jettied gable with roll-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets and parallel diagonal framing. C20 nail-studded boarded door. Collar and tie-beam end trusses with queen struts and V-struts. One post at rear of hall range with scotch. Timber framed and brick lean-to at rear with 6-panelled door. Interior not inspected but chamfered spine beams noted in cross wing and the owner (April 1986) reports some panelling in the cross wing and a winder stair.

Listing NGR: SJ6127828670