The Bakery And Burleigh Cottage

TL 7031-7131 5/173 21.12.67

WETHERSFIELD HIGH STREET (north side) The Bakery and Burleigh Cottage (formerly listed as Burghley Cottage and The Bakery

GV II

House, now 2 houses and a shop. C.1580, extended in C17 and C18. 3 bays facing SE with central stack, forming a lobby-entrance, and one-bay extension to right, early C17. At left, set back from main elevation, C18 range extending to rear, now The Bakery. Lean-to extension behind main range. 2 storeys and attics in main range, 2 storeys in left range. Ground floor, C19 shopfront with glazed door, both under slated canopy, 2 C19/C20 tripartite sashes of 2-4-2 lights, one early C19 casement of 12 lights. First floor, 4 late C19 sashes of 6 lights. One C20 door and one early C19 door with 6 flush panels, both under shallow hoods. Grouped diagonal shafts. Roof of left range hipped. Jowled posts, curved tension bracing trenched inside close studding. Underbuilt jetty at front. Unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions in original right wall, now an internal partition. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists. Large wood-burning hearth facing right. In front of original middle bay, at first floor, blocked original window with 2 moulded mullions and 3 diamond saddle bars. The combination of an original glazed window at the front, an original unglazed window at the side and lamb's tongue stops, permits a close dating of c.1580. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. RCHM 8.

Listing NGR: TL7122631304