Doctor'S Cottages

WHEATHILL

SO68SW Doctor's Cottages 482-1/4/212 15/03/74

II

2 houses, now single house. C17. Timber-framed, with partly painted brick infill panels and partly render on lath infill panels, stone rubble rear and side walls. Plain-tile roof. Projecting stepped stone stack with tiled offsets and detached stone shaft with upper shafts missing. 2-framed bay range, with gable additions at front and back, and 2-bay cross wing. EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Front 2-bay range with gable over to right, cross-wing gable to left, large stone stack to extreme left. Square framing with large lower panels much underbuilt with brick and stone. Small rectangular upper panels covered by continuous tiled pentice roof on brackets. Gable trusses with 4 vertical struts, collar with raking struts over. 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion window framed into square framing. 2 simple mullion windows set in brick underbuilding, 2 plain C19 boarded doors. Casement window opening inset into main range gable framing, and 3-light casement to left gable. Windows had lattice-leaded lights now in various states of destruction. Right return: rebuilt stone rubble gable end with 2 ground-floor and single attic window opening. Left return covered by stone stack. Rear: stone rubble ground floor with doorway and window openings. To left is gable projecting from main range with twin vertical struts and collar. To right is cross wing gable of twin vertical struts with raking struts over collar. Window opening framed between struts. INTERIOR: main range with internal truss partition with square framing, chamfered bridging beams with ogee stops, 4-centred arched door head at ground floor. Internal trusses of 4 vertical struts below a collar, and one with door posts interrupting tie beam. Single trenched-purlin roof. Cross wing with chamfered bridging beam with simple stops. Internal truss of 4 struts. Double trenched-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: SO6198681871