Keeper'S Cottage

SO 8463 OMBERSLEY CP SINTON LANE (north side)

9/146 Keeper's Cottage

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Cottage. Probably C15 origins, rebuilt C17 and altered mid-C19 and mid-C20. Timber-framed with brick and rendered wattle-and-daub infill, brick replace- ment walling, plain tiled roofs, main brick ridge stack with oversailing cap courses and also external brick stack at right side. Hall and cross-wing type plan, hall of three framed bays with stack probably inserted in former through-passage and leaving a lobby entrance at rear; cross-wing to east of two framed bays. Framin : three square panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight braces in upper corners and collar-and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-strut in apex. Front elevation: irregular fenestra- tion; main part has a 2-light and a 3-light casement with cambered heads; gabled dormer with 2-light casement; main entrance to right of chimney and has a doorcase with open pediment and pilasters and a ledged and battened door; cross-wing gable end has a ground floor 2-light casement and an attic light and is weatherboarded in the gable apex. Interior: intermediate collar-and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts; cross frame east of main chimney has remains of blades of full cruck trusses.

Listing NGR: SO8456963050