Tudor Cottage

TL 73 NE LITTLE YELDHAM HALL GREEN 4/19 Tudor Cottage II

House, late C16. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 3 bays aligned NE-SW with axial chimney stack at NE end of middle bay. Small lean-to extension at SW end. Single storey with attics. NW elevation, C20 door, 3 C20 casement windows, 2 more in slated lean-to dormers. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studs, clasped purlin roof with arched wind braces. All the floors are inserted. In the NE and middle bays there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps c.1600. The floor in the SW bay is similar in construction but later in the C17, with notched stops and thinner joists. The SW end was originally half- hipped, with mortices for an unglazed window below it, but the roof has been carried down continuously over the extension.

Listing NGR: TL7828838945