The Cottage

LUDDINGTON

SP15SE VILLAGE STREET 1931-1/4/66 (North side) 02/08/72 The Cottage

GV II

House. C16 with later alterations and additions including raised roof and C20 extensions to left and rear. Rendered timber-framing on blue lias rubble plinth with thicker, rendered brick or stone, walls to left; steeply pitched old tile roof with brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance left of centre in forward-break has 6-panel door in moulded wood frame. Large window to left of entrance has 3-light small-paned casement, smaller similar window above; left end has small square window with 2-light casement with leaded glazing to each floor; right end has pair of windows under dripmould, each with 2-light small-paned casement, 2 small windows above have small-paned casements with leaded glazing; attic has 2 gabled dormers with 2-light leaded casements. Left return has nesting holes in gable and single-storey addition with French windows to front. Right return has small square window with 2-light wooden ovolo-mullioned window. Rear has gabled wing with stack; small first-floor window with ovolo-moulded frame and leaded glazing. INTERIOR: small section of exposed close studding to left end; stop-chamfered spine beam and inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer, round-backed recess to left with shelves, possibly originally bacon-curing cupboard and niche to right return, with cut-outs to sides, forming seat, left return wall with later opening; winding stair and exposed roof trusses. First-floor chimney in front of the flue from that to ground floor, space above fireplace possibly priest hole; some C17 dado panelling to first-floor front.

Listing NGR: SP1678252658