Rose Cottage

TL 5458 LITTLE WILBRAHAM HIGH STREET (North Side)

17/35 No. 40 (Rose Cottage)

GV II

Cottage of early C17 origin, altered C19. Timber framed with a further, narrower bay, also originally timber framed, added to the right hand gable end late in C17. In the early C19 the timber framing was removed and the whole cottage underbuilt in grey gault brick. At the same time the cottage was sub- divided into two dwellings. There are two roofs of reed thatch and an original C17 red brick stack with the upper courses rebuilt in the late C19. One storey and attic. One dormer. At ground floor three windows and two doorways, all C19 or later. In the rear wall plate the mortices for studs and peg holes show that the cottage was originally timber-framed. Inside there is an inglenook fireplace of C17 red brick and clunch, and a chamfered and ogee stopped main beam. The details of the narrower addition including the fireplace and the boxing of the mainbeam, are all C19.

R.C.H.M. Record card

Listing NGR: TL5417458482