Pair Of Cottages 20 Metres South Of Terling Stores And Post Office

TERLING THE STREET TL 7714 (south-west side) 11/163 Pair of cottages 20 metres south of Terling Stores and Post Office

GV II House, now 2 cottages. C15, altered in C16 and C18/.C19. Timber framed, plastered with weatherboarded dado, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing NE with late C16 axial stack in left bay. 3-bay crosswing to left, extended to rear by one bay in C18/C19, with single-storey extension in rear angle, forming a catslide with the crosswing. 2-bay crosswing to right of hall, extended to rear by one bay in C18/C19, with axial stack. C18/C19 extension to right of right crosswing, formerly a shop with cottage at rear, with internal stack at rear end. Hall of one storey with attics, remainder of 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 C20 casements. First floor, 2 more and one in gabled dormer of hall, and one in half-dormer of right extension. 2 plain boarded doors. Rebuilt grouped diagonal shafts on both stacks. Jowled posts. The hall has a late C16 inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam, and chamfered joists of square section with lamb's tongue stops. One chamfered rising brace to the central tiebeam is visible. Roof of crownpost construction but plastered to the collars; some smoke-blackening visible at dormer. The left crosswing originally comprised 2 long bays and a short bay at the rear partitioned from the remainder, but the ground-floor partition has been removed. Cambered tiebeams, crownpost roof with axial bracing, complete. The right crosswing has close studding with straight tension braces trenched to the inside. No access to roof. RCHM 9.

Listing NGR: TL7732714929