Sun Cottage

FEERING FEERING HILL TL 8619-8719 (north-west side)

8/92 No. 5 (Sun Cottage) 21.12.67

GV II*

Part of mansion, now house, shop and garage. C15, extended in C16. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing SE with continuous jetty. Early C16 stack in second bay from left end, behind axis. C17/18 stack at right end, in front of axis. Corridor extension to rear, c.1560. Wing to rear of right end, 3 bays, formerly longer, C16. Originally this property was combined with that to the left (now No. 3, The Sun Inn) and that to the right (now No. 7, Feering House), forming a mansion known as Strangers (see items 8/91 and 8/93). 2 storeys. Ground floor, one C20 casement, C19 shop projecting under jetty, with half-glazed door, and double doors to garage. First floor, C16 oriel, the base plastered over and the windows altered to C20 casements, and 2 C20 casements. At the left end, plain boarded door with one small light, within late C16 gabled porch with moulded and carved 4-centred outer arch, and original carved bargeboards. The beams and plain joists of horizontal section are visible below the jetty. The joists are jointed to the chamfered axial beams with central tenons. Jowled posts, close studding. The stack near the left end has on the ground floor a wide wood-burning hearth, and above the mantel beam a niche with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch. The hearth is reduced with an C18 pine fire surround with rocaille ornament carved in bold relief, and a plain cupboard to the right. This room has an C18 moulded wooden coving. On the first floor the stack has a chamfered and mitred mantel beam over a wood-burning hearth, and above it a niche with trefoiled head of moulded brick, early C16. Original floorboards. Arched braces to cambered tiebeams, originally of 2 open trusses, now studded and partitioned. Crownpost roof with axial bracing. Simple wall painting of arcaded design, early C17, on partition in attic. In the rear corridor extension, edge-halved and bridled scarf, and 2 blocked windows of early glazed type each with one moulded mullion. Moulded 4-plank door, early C17, to rear of ground floor. Early C19 half-glazed door on first floor with 2 large bull's-eye panes. RCHM 30.

Listing NGR: TL8661919286