Duce'S Cottage

BITTERLEY

SO57NE Duce's Cottage 482-1/6/69 15/03/74 (Formerly Listed as: Church Farmhouse)

GV II

House. C17, remodelled mid C19. Brick, with timber-frame with painted render infill. Plain-tile roof. Stone projecting end stack, and brick projecting eaves stack, both with restored diagonally-set brick twin shafts. EXTERIOR: north front is 2-window range with C19 cross-wing and lean-to. Single-storey and attic. C19 cross wing gable to left with oak mullion window with lattice leading over plain boarded entrance door with tiled gabled canopy. Gable framing with straight tie and collar and cusped framed star-shape over. C17 range to right is square-framed with one brace. One gabled dormer with single-light leaded casement, ground floor with C19 brick lean-to outshut. Right return gable: end truss with tie beam, vertical struts framing oak mullion window, collar, twin raking struts with inset false cusped applied timbers, square framing with upper tension brace. Gabled obscured to left by stepped stone stack and by C19 lean-to at ground floor. Left return side: main range end-truss with cut tie beam, vertical struts, collar and raking struts. Ground floor with C20 lean-to. To right the C19 cross wing with applied cusping at ridge. Rear: square framing at attic level underbuilt with mid C19 brick. Central tiled gabled canopy over plain boarded door in chamfered frame, flanked by oak face-fixed mullion and transom windows with some lattice leading. C20 lean-to to right. INTERIOR: twin bridging beams per bay with ogee stopped chamfers. Internal truss with tie beam interrupted with posts and collar. Single trenched purlin roof.

Listing NGR: SO5616177387