Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rafter-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, plaster render, and a longstraw thatched roof, featuring a half-hipped design and an original axial ridge stack with a narrow string course. The layout follows a lobby entry plan, with a narrower dairy located in the service bay to the right. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and it has two dormers. There are two flush frame horizontal sliding sash windows on either side of the doorway leading to the lobby entry.
Inside, there is an inglenook hearth made of red brick, which has a later hearth abutting it in the parlour. The main beams are chamfered and ovolo moulded, with stops. In around 1820, the interior was remodeled, which included inverting a partition wall on the first floor between the service end and the chamber over the hall. Two staircases were added: one in the service end and the principal one at the back. The late 17th-century vase-shaped balusters from the staircase of the now-demolished Haslingfield Hall (which was taken down around 1819) and some ovolo moulded timbers have been incorporated into the partition wall and staircases.
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