Lordships Cottage Lordships House

The following buildings shall be added

WEST WRATTING MILL ROAD TL6051 15/194 No.3 LORDSHIPS HOUSE & NO.5 LORDSHIPS COTTAGE II

Farmhouse divided into two houses. Early C19. Stuccoed timber frame and brick plinth. Gable-ended slate roof to front range; steeply-pitched plain tile roofs over rear wing. Brick gable end stacks.

Plan: 2-room plan front range with central entrance hall, rear outshut and service wing behind the left room. Most of the service wing is now a separate dwelling.

2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay east front, the stucco has insised panel decoration. C19 16-pane sashes in flush cases, centre first floor a 12-pane sash. Central doorway with moulded wooden architrave, paterae in frieze, shaped brackets to canopy with small pendants and reeded flush panel door.

The single storey rear wing has been partly raised to 1 storey and attic; casement windows and raking dormers.

Interior: Front range not inspected but said to have simple stick baluster staircase with mahogany handrail, 2-panel and 4-panel doors. The rear wing (lordships Cottage) has chamfered axial beam in small central room and large brick gable end fireplace with chamfered timber lintel. Attic rooms in rear wing have expopsed tie-beams in partitions and exposed timber wall-plates, but the roof structure is ceiled.

Note: Lordships Farmhouse was built after the enclosure of 1813 on the former village green.

Source: South Cambridgeshire District Council Planning. Department.

Listing NGR: TL6079551531