Curtis Mill Cottage

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TQ59NW CURTIS MILL GREEN 723-1/4/483 (South side) Curtis Mill Cottage

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House. C16, C17 and C20. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roof C20 factory made tiles. 4 dormers. One storey and attic. Irregular 5 window range. Simple C20 door with sloping hood, C20 yellow brick porch and old door at N. Central stack to rear of ridge. Porch and dormers to rear. Break in roof line delimits 2 bays of medieval building at N end, probably half of a house. Rest is C20 timber-framing. INTERIOR: N bay has heavy, external, arched bracing and principal members of a clasped side purlin roof and possibly remains of former crownpost. Ground floor ceiling, forming attic floor, raised, using reused timber (joists with soffit tenons). Adjoining bay on upper floor has cambered, chamfered tie-beam probably formerly the central truss of a hall with mortices for deep arched braces in the storey post. Cut away section in E wallplate marks site of hall window. C17 insertion of ceiling incorporates bridging joist with diamond broach stops and chamfers and diminished haunched soffit tenons supported on brickwork of stack and a chamfered, cambered tie-beam with mortices for braces reused as a binding joist supporting both halves of the ceiling. Fireplace rebuilt C20. Considerable reorganisation of interior. Listed for the interest of the C16 and C17 work only.

Listing NGR: TQ5211995850