Cottage Between Tudor Cottage And Markswood Gallery Markswood Gallery Tudor Cottage

TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BROOK STREET (north side)

8/151 Tudor Cottage, Markswood Gallery and 21.12.67 cottage between, (formerly listed as The Nest and Newsagent's Shop )

GV II

House and range of cottages, now 2 houses and an art gallery. C16 and earlier, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay crosswing aligned N-S, facing S, and 2-bay hall range to right, with axial stack in left bay. Extended to right in C19 to add 2 cottages with central stack. Now divided into (1) Tudor Cottage, the crosswing and part of the stack (2) unnamed cottage, comprising the remainder of the hall range and one of the C19 cottages (3) Markswood Gallery, the cottage at the right end, with C20 single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear. 2 storeys. Tudor Cottage has 2 C20 casements on ground floor, one on first floor, and a plain door. The roof has been raised approx. 0.5 metre, leaving the original wallplates project- ing through the front elevation. The unnamed cottage has a 2-window range of C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 24 lights and a plain door with shallow hood on simple profiled brackets. Markswood Gallery has a C20 glazed door and a C19 splayed bay shop window altered in the C20. The interior of Tudor Cottage has chamfered axial beams, exposed plain joists of horizontal section, and one visible curved brace trenched inside heavy studding, all C16 except the roof. The hall range retains the original wallplates of the medieval hall but no other original structure is visible. The walls have been raised approx. 1 metre in the C17, and a floor inserted, comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed joists of vertical section. RCHM 10.

Listing NGR: TL6762830551