Oak Cottage

TL 4052 HASLINGFIELD BROAD LANE (West Side) 15/149 No. 13 (Oak Cottage)

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Cottage. Mid-late C17. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and longstraw thatch, half hipped, and original axial ridge stack with narrow string course. Lobby entry plan, including the narrower dairy at service bay to right hand. One storey and attic. Two dormers. Two flush frame horizontal sliding sashes on either side of doorway to lobby entry. Inside. Inglenook hearth of red brick with later abutting hearth to parlour. Chamfered and ovolo moulded main beams within stops. In c.1820 the interior of the cottage was remodelled. A partition wall at first floor between the service end and chamber over the hall was inverted and two staircases, one in the service end and the principal one in the back were also added. Late C17 vase shaped balusters from the staircase at Haslingfield Hall (demolished c.1819) and some ovolo moulded timbers have been incorporated in the partition wall and staircases. R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(16)

Listing NGR: TL4035852314