Apple Tree Cottage

FEERING THE STREET TL 8620-8720 (south side)

7/119 Apple Tree Cottage

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Nos. 1 and 2 Apple Tree Cottages. House. Late C16, extended in C19. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing NW, with axial stack in second bay from right end. Rear stack in right bay, with, C19 extension beyond, forming an L-plan. 2 storeys: Ground floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 1O + 10 lights. First floor, 3 early c191sashes of 5 + 10 lights. Plain boarded door. Gablet half-hip at left end of roof, full hip at right end. The front is plastered, the sides and rear of the original house are weatherboarded. The left bay is reported to have plain joists arranged longitudinally, now plastered. Between this and the next bay is an open partition of heavy studs, with original sill, some studs removed. This bay has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. C20 grate in large wood-burning hearth facing to left with V-headed salt recess, the mantel beam chamfered and mitred, with jambs of 0.33 metre brickwork. C20 grate and early C19 corner cupboard in right bay. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, re-using smoke-blackened medieval rafters.

Listing NGR: TL8726720344