Ruskett'S Cottages

BLACKMORE

TL60SW SPRIGG'S LANE 723-1/2/43 (East side) 20/02/76 Nos.1 AND 2 Ruskett's Cottages (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD SPRIGGS LANE, Blackmore Nos.1 AND 2 Rusketts Cottages)

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House, now 2 houses. c1500, altered in C17, C18 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Small medieval house of 4 bays facing W, extended to right by one bay c1984. C16 axial stack in middle of whole range. No.1 comprises the part to left of the middle of the stack, No.2 comprises the part to the right. One storey with attics, No.1 has a C20 single-storey wing to rear of the left bay, and a lean-to extension to right of it. No.2 has a C20 single-storey wing to rear right, and a lean-to extension to left of it, roofed with felt. Four C20 casements, and 2 more in gabled dormers (one in each house). Two C20 doors. Gambrel roof. Shaft cement-rendered. INTERIOR: at the time of inspection, January 1989, No.1 was undergoing major renovation, with the frame fully exposed internally; No.2 was fully plastered internally. No.1 comprises (up to tie-beam level) the parlour/solar bay and hall of the medieval house, the stack being in the shorter right bay of the 2-bay hall. Jowled posts, heavy studding, cambered tie-beam. In the rear wall of the left bay is a framed original window, with 4 diamond mortices at top and bottom. The floor of the left bay has been rebuilt in the C18, with plain joists of vertical section. The right bay has an inserted floor of the C17, with a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section, of heavier quality than in the left bay. The roof has been wholly rebuilt in the C18 in gambrel form. The C16 stack has been altered in the C18, the size of the hearth reduced with C18 bricks, but retaining the original mantel beam, with another below it. No.2 is wholly plastered internally, but is believed to comprise the service bay of the medieval house, and has an extension of 1984 to right of it. One jowled post outlined in plaster in front wall. C20 grate.

Listing NGR: TL6120702314