West Cottage

MALDON

TL8407SE LONDON ROAD 574-1/6/139 (South West side) 24/09/71 No.11 West Cottage

GV II

Cottage. Early C17 with C20 additions. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled plain tile roof; tall external stack on south-east flank and similar stack now breaking through ridge against C20 extension. EXTERIOR: single storey with attic; 3-window range; pantile-roofed rear lean-to and lean-to C20 car port on south-east flank with black weatherboarded gable. Front has 3 gabled dormers, each with C20 two-light casement, and one roof light. Ground floor has projecting porch with plain tile lean-to roof and C20 boarded door with side lights. Either side are 16-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds. C20 lateral extension of the cottage with one of the dormer windows and a garage door opening with cambered arch. To the rear of this a C20 two-storey extension into garden, the roofline of which is visible over original ridge. INTERIOR: good quality timber-frame of 3 equal bays with lambs-tongue-stopped bridging joists. Central 2 posts on each wall are unjowled and tie beams form A-frame roof. Some reused timber and roof largely of good reused rafters, some with thickening towards tops. 2 corner cupboards, one small cupboard with serpentine shelves and one larger cupboard from elsewhere in county.

Listing NGR: TL8474207017