The Thatched Cottage

TL 73 SW 1/100

WETHERSFIELD BLACKMORE END ROAD (south-west side) The Thatched Cottage

GV II

House. Early C16 or earlier, altered c.1600 and in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing NE, with C17/C18 stack at left end, and storeyed parlour/solar bay to right. C19 stack to right, and C19 one-bay extension beyond. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear, roofed with corrugated iron. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 12 lights, and one C19 small casement. First floor, 2 similar sashes in gabled dormers. 2 plain boarded doors. Beam of inserted floor projects through front wall, morticed and tusk-tenoned. Jowled posts with step stops, heavy studding, diamond mortices of former unglazed windows in front and rear walls of hall. The inserted floor in the hall comprises a chamfered transverse beam with elaborated step stops, tusk-tenoned at both ends, and plain longitudinal joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, c.1600. The roof of tne hall is of collar-rafter construction, all timbers heavily smoke-blackened. The central tiebeam of the hall has been removed. The tiebeam between hall and solar has been severed for an inserted doorway. The roof of the solar has been rebuilt. This house has passed through the stage of being adapted to form 2 cottages in the early C19, and re-combined.

Listing NGR: TL7398330723