Tudor House

TL 5460 BOTTISHAM HIGH STREET (North Side) 11/7 No. 89 (Tudor House)

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House built probably late C16 with service end to left hand rebuilt in late C17. Timber-framed, rendered with a later half-hipped tiled roof with a ridge stack built in C19 in style of early C17 with grouped shafts on a rectangular base. Lobby entry plan of three bays and a narrow fire and stairbay. Two storeys, with the side wall jettied at first floor. There are five C19, Tudoresque casements at first floor each with a drip mould with return stops, possibly original but perhaps dating from the time when the roof of the service wing was raised. The entry is in a small hall opposite the stack, built in C19 of clunch on a brick sill with the walls curved. The late C17 service wing is also framed and rendered but has had the roof raised. Ridge stack. Two similar windows with arched panes at first floor. Inside there is no evidence that there was a closed truss between the earlier and later ranges, indicating that the late C17 range is a rebuild of part of the original house. The floor frames of the hall and parlour have quartered main beams, stop chamfered. One tie-beam has two peg holes at the centre suggesting that the roof may have been one of crown post construction but further evidence was not seen.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p9, mon (15)

Listing NGR: TL5453860437