Lower Court Cottage

SO 75 SE COTHERIDGE CP CHURCH LANE (east side)

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Cottage. C17 with later alterations. Timber-framed, part rendered, part painted brick and wattle-and-daub infill, brick replacement walling and refacing, asbestos cement tiled roofs, large external brick chimney with tiled offsets at east gable end with detached brick stack. Main range of 2 framed bays and an intersecting 2 bay cross-wing and through-passage at junction. Two storeys. Framing of large square panels, 3 from sill to wall- plate; large straight brace in lower corners of north and south wall-frame at east end. Front elevation has a ground floor casement, a raking-top half- dormer and a part-glazed C20 door. The cross-wing gable end has a ground and first floor casement with plank weatherings. Rear elevation Main part has a ground floor and first floor casement; 2 casements in cross-wing gable end also C20 extension in angle. Interior: Roof has queen strut trusses with single, trenched purlins. Curved arched doorhead retained to rear of through-passage. Main beams are stop chamfered. A single storey brick extension at east gable end encloses external stack. A brick lean-to extension adjoins the west side elevation of the cross-wing.

Listing NGR: SO7870054451