Frogs Cottage

CRESSING BRAINTREE ROAD TL 72 SE (east side)

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• II

House. Early C18, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing SW with stack in second bay from right end, against front wall. C19 one-bay extension to right. C20 extension with flat roof along most of rear, except C20 single-storey lean-to extension near left end. One storey with attics. 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 2 more in gabled dormers. C20 door at front of lean-to porch. Gambrel roof half-hipped at both ends. The stack comprises a large wood-burning hearth facing to right, with blocked aperture for missing bread oven to front (formerly outside the house) and a C20 mantel beam. The other hearth, facing to left, has been reduced in width in the C20 to form a lobby-entrance. The frame includes much re-used timber of all periods. Primary straight bracing. Longitudinal plain joists in 2 right bays, and one transverse chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops, re-used. In bay to left of stack, chamfered axial beam, unstopped. The tiebeam one bay from the left end is inscribed IB 1710.

Listing NGR: TL7805721075