Fairfield Cottage

TM 12 NE 3/2

BEAUMONT-CUM-MOZE CHAPEL ROAD (north side) Fairfield Cottage

II

House. Early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles at front, interlocking concrete tiles at rear. 3 bays facing S with stack in middle bay, behind axis. C20 single-storey extension to rear, with outshuts on each aide, forming catslides with the main roof. One storey with attics. 2 C20 casements, and 2 more in flat-roofed dormers. Plain boarded door in C20 gabled porch. Primary straight bracing. The studs forming the rear wall of the main range have a good series of chisel-cut carpenter's assembly marks; they are more widely spaced in the right bay than elsewhere, suggesting that the right outshut may be original. The stack is set back, originally forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked; probably the original stair was in front of it. Chamfered axial beams on half-height jowls. In the right bay the beam is unstopped, and the joists are of horizontal section; moot of them are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, with come plain replacements. In the left bay the beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue and notch stops, and all the joists have lamb's tongue stops. 2 large wood-burning hearths. Clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM1713025059