Number 2, Brook Cottage And Adjacent To Cottage To North

TL 6832 7/100

FINCHINGFIELD VICARAGE ROAD (east side) No. 2 Brook Cottage and adjacent cottage to north

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House, now 2 cottages. C17 or earlier, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing E, with internal stack near middle against rear wall, and a C19 internal stack at each end. Extended to left, C18/C19, and divided into cottages. 2 extensions to rear. One storey with attics. 4 C19 casements, 4 more in gabled dormers. 2 boarded doors, each with a small pane and shallow hood on profiled brackets. One diagonally arranged shaft on main stack. In the right bay, longitudinal joists of horizontal section. In the next bay, chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and square joists. Large wood-burning hearth, the mantel beam chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Jowled posts, cambered tiebeams. Originally of one storey and minimal loft, the walls have been raised approx. 1 metre, probably in the late C17 or C18.

Listing NGR: TL6873132716