Lower Cottage

GREETE

SO57SE Lower Cottage 582-1/4/113 15/03/74

II

House. Late C15 core with C17 main range and C20 alterations. Painted timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill, brick and stone rubble. Plain-tile roof. Projecting stone stack with brick stepped upper stages and stone bread oven to side. L-shaped plan of 3 framed-bay main range and 2 framed-bay cross wing. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and single-storey with attic. Windows generally C20 casements with leaded lights. West front of main range has square framing 2 panels high with 3 C20 casements. Underbuilt frame at ground floor with C20 brick and with windows flanking tiled enclosed porch. Left (north) return side: main range gable of square framing 4 panels high on brick plinth with tension brace, covered by brick stack in centre, with end-truss of straight tie beam, collar and vertical struts. Cross wing to left with square framing 3 panels high on stone rubble plinth with swept tension brace. 3 inserted windows and entrance door with tiled gabled porch. 2 C19 dormers. East gable of cross wing: cruck frame at first floor underbuilt with C19 brick; cruck blades truncated above upper collar, twin restored struts to lower collar framing a 2-light window, 3 studs to tie beam, all horizontal members lapped and notch jointed to cruck blades. East wall of main range: square framing 4 panels high underbuilt in brick to south bay only, covered by cross wing to right. South sides of both wings rebuilt in C20 brickwork. INTERIOR: single trenched-purlin roof. Deep chamfered cross bridging beams to south bay of main range. Double bridging beams to north bay and to cruck-framed bays.

Listing NGR: SO5706270738