Ripstowe The Cottage

BRADWELL COGGESHALL ROAD TL 82 SW (north side) 2/18 The Cottage and Ripstowe

GV II

House, extended to form 2 cottages. Late C16/early cL7, extended in C18 and C20. Timber framed, mainly plastered, partly faced with painted brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing S with internal stack against front wall, extended to right with internal C18/19 stack behind ridge, and C20 single-storey extension beyond, roofed with red interlocking tiles. C17 crosswing at left end, with C20 external stack to left of rear bay. Rear extensions. The Cottage (left) has one early C20 splayed bay, one early C20 casement, and 2 more on the upper floor, one of which is in a hipped dormer; C20 half-glazed door. Ripstowe (right) has 3 C20 casements and 2 more in gabled dormers, and a C20 half-glazed door, and a fully glazed door in the right extension. The main range of The Cottage has a wide wood-burning hearth facing to left, reduced for a C20 grate, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. The crosswing has transverse joists of vertical section, and in the left wall of the front bay the mantel beam of a demolished external stack. Upper floor not inspected. Ripstowe has heavy studding at the front, a face-halved and bladed scarf in the rear wallplate, and primary straight bracing. RCHM (Pattiswick) 10.

Listing NGR: TL8064623150