Lyndon Cottage

LONG MARSTON

SP1548 MAIN STREET 1912-1/13/99 (West side) 17/08/88 Lyndon Cottage

GV II

House. C17 with later minor additions and alterations. Timber-frame with whitewashed brick and plastered wattle-and-daub infill, some whitewashed brick to left and to outshut, all on rubble plinth; steeply pitched renewed thatch roof with brick end stacks and tile roof to outshut. Gable facing, front to left; 2-unit plan. EXTERIOR: single storey with attic; 2-window range. Brick to left half, roughcast to right half. Entrance to left of centre has half-glazed lean-to porch and C20 door. 2 windows with 2-light casements; eyebrow dormer to left has 2-light casement over irregular wall plate. Right return has half-hipped gable with exposed timber framing over lean-to outshut clasping external stack and with gabled projection; rounded rubble oven projection with stone slate roof to right. Rear has exposed square framing and entrance with C20 door to left of centre, small light to centre and 2 small windows with leaded glazing; 2 small 1st floor windows. INTERIOR: recorded as having chamfered spine beams and blocked open fireplace with bressumer; late C18 open fireplace inserted in kitchen; truss tie beam cut for doorway probably at same time. Old elm plank doors to kitchen and 1st floor. Framing remains in party wall to left and partition wall; C20 staircase.

Listing NGR: SP1530548464