Beam Cottage Cage Cottage

TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE STREET (west side)

8/141 Beam Cottage and Cage 21.12.67 Cottage

GV II

House, divided into 2 cottages. Early C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. Main range of 4 bays facing E, with 2-bay crosswing at left end. Axial stack, and C19 external stacks at each end. Crosswing of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. Beam Cottage, one C20 casement and one C20 oriel, 2 C20 casements on first floor, of which one is in a swept dormer. Double doors to garage, and C20 door. Beam projecting through front wall, mortised and tusk-tenoned. Cage Cottage, 2 C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 lights with crown glass, one C20 casement, and one more in swept dormer. C20 door in early C19 simple doorcase with shallow hood on scrolled brackets. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. The interior has heavy studding, curved tension bracing. The crosswing has plain joists of horizontal section jointed to the binding beam with central tenons, and 2 brackets of an underbuilt jetty. The inserted floors in the hall have transverse beams with run-out chamfers, and plain joists of vertical section. The central tiebeam has been moved to allow the construction of the inserted stack, but is still present. Hall roof of crownpost construction, smoke- bLackened, but collars, collar-purlin and crownposts missing. RCHM 34.

Listing NGR: TL6758830665