Mount Cottage Yorklette Cottage

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MOUNT BURES HALL ROAD TL 93 SW (east side) Mount Cottage and 2/10003 Yorklette Cottage II GV House, late medieval. Timber framed and rendered with plain tile roofs. Single storey with attic; 2 storey cross wing to Yorklette Cottage. Built as hall house, then divided into two cottages in the C18. Former hall and upper end contained in Yorklette Cottage to the north; the crosswing of two bays, rear roof of cross wing gableted; inserted floor in hall with stop chamfered C16 floor joists, Fomer parlour/solar with wall of exposed framing and tension bracing to former hall. Cross wing has arch-braced tie beam. Stair opening in floor at NE corner and bridging joists resting on substantial shaped corbel in south wall. Inglenook stack on party wall projecting through front slope of roof. Former low end in Mount Cottage, which has break in the roof line. Broad gabled dormers to each may date to the C17. Ridge stack to Mount Cottage. External stack to left return. Each cottage with a catslide roof rear dormer. Evidence of C17 work in parlour of Mount Cottage, chamfered beam with ogee stop.

Listing NGR: TL9063532634