Blue Hole Cottage

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/160 Blue Hole Cottage 05/04/67 (Formerly Listed as: WOOTTON WAWEN Field Farm Cottages (formerly listed as Blue Hole Cottages))

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3 cottages, now single house. Mid C17 with C19 range to right and restorations c1980-90 with outshut to left and extension to rear. Blue lias stone plinth surmounted by timber-framing with plaster infill, some wattle and daub remaining, with painted brick nogging to right part and reddish-brown brick range to left; plain-tile roof. Originally a 2-unit plan with central stack, with 2 single-cell additions to right and further outshut to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Small square timber-framing with angle braces. Steps to pair of off-centre left entrances and further entrance to right, plank doors. C20 casement windows throughout. Gabled roof. Internal, ridge and left end stacks. INTERIOR: 2 inglenook fireplaces with bressumer beams, that to centre in original smoke stack. 2 main chamfered beams with chamfered stops rest on massive, chamfered jowled studs, 6 studs altogether. Exposed timber-framing, also to partition walls. Plank doors. Smoke blackened timbers to upper floor. Purlins and arched braces are exposed, some renewed.

Listing NGR: SP1539662846