Quest Cottage

TL 7924 and 8024 STISTED THE STREET (east side)

7/292 and 8/292 No. 29 (Quest Cottage)

GV II

House. Circa 1600, extended in C18 and C20, with C19 Tudor Revival ornamental detail. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays of a formerly longer range facing NW, with C19 external stack to left and C19 internal stack behind ridge in right bay. C18 2-bay extension to right with internal stack at right end. C19 wing to rear left. Complex of C20 flat-roofed 2-storey and single-storey extensions to rear of main range. 2 storeys and attic. 4 C20 casements on ground floor, 3 on first floor and one in attic gable. C20 door in gabled porch, formed from formerly bracketed C19 canopy and 2 inserted posts, with fretted and pierced bargeboards of fleur-de-lis design with carved finial and pendant. The C18 right range has a gambrel roof aligned parallel with the front elevation, and a C19 feature gable facing the street with bargeboards, finial and pendant as described on the porch. The left range has a fretted and pierced eaves board of fleur-de-lis design. 2 elaborately moulded octagonal shafts on each stack. In left range, jowled posts, chamfered binding beams with lamb's tongue stops, arched braces to the 2 left tiebeams, which are cambered. Chamfered joists of vertical section with lamb's tongue stops, jointed to the binding beams with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. Studs in right end mostly missing. 2 inserted posts in this wall, on the upper storey, which are square at the base, chamfered to an octagonal section above, with lamb's tongue stops, nailed in position, probably re-used from a G17 bed. Clasped purlin roof, complete. The left truss is open, and indicates that originally this range continued to the left, behind the right (service) bay of Rufus Leo (item 7/291, q.v.). The right range has a chamfered transverse beam of vertical section with lamb's tongue stops, possibly inserted, and plain joists of vertical section. Wood-burning hearth at right, jambs of 0.23 metre brickwork, original mantel beam, mutilated and covered.

Listing NGR: TL7997824740