Honeysuckle Cottage

TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS CURTIS MILL LANE 3/11 Honeysuckle Cottage II

Cottage, late C17. Timber framed, weatherboarded, partly rendered, roofed with handmade led. clay tiles. 2 bays aligned approx. E-W, with external brick chimney stack at E end, aspect N. Single-storey extension at W end, c.1929. Single storey with attics. S elevation plastered over weatherboards , 2 C20 windows. Whole building, including roof, covered with creeper. Axial beam plain-chamfered with Lamb's tongue stops, exposed joists of vertical section, unchamfered. Primary straight bracing. The present brick chimney stack is oi wood-burning type, with bread oven with cast iron door to the S, but it is later in date than the cottage, and probably replaces a timber-framed chimney in the same pnsition. The windows, although C20, occupy original window apertures, and are small, -in scale with the cottage. This is an unusually unspoiled example of a simple vernacular dwelling of its period.

Listing NGR: TQ5139196068