Tudor Cottage

CHURCH STRETTON

SO4593 HIGH STREET 1312-1/13/83 (East side) 04/07/52 Tudor Cottage

GV II*

House. Late C16 with C17 alterations, remodelled late C18. Painted timber frame with painted brick infill panels on stone rubble plinth with stone rubble side and rear walls. Plain-tile roofs with integral brick gable-end stack to left and integral brick eaves stack to right on cross wing. L-shaped on plan, with 2-bay hall and cross wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Street front has gable of cross wing to the right with first-floor and attic jetties, carved and enriched corner brackets integral with corner posts, straight tension braces and close studding at ground level, jettied carved bressumer, herringbone pattern framing at first floor, cambered jettied tie beam, decorative gable collars and struts forming star patterns. Hall and return frame of cross wing to left close studded throughout with single straight tension brace, the upper tier of panelling to the hall created by a raised eaves, C20 lattice casement windows. North gable-end truss: cambered tie beam over square framing 3 panels high; 4 vertical struts, collar and twin raking struts above tie beam, eaves raised over principals. South side wall of stone rubble with single casement at first floor. Rear: framed gable truss to left consists of tie beam, 3 vertical struts, collar and twin raking struts over. Square panelled first-floor framing to right with 2 casements. Remainder of original frame underbuilt in replacement stone rubble with date 1779 set in stone wall. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4520493469