Landermere Cottage

TM 12 SE 5/105

THORPE-LE-SOKEN WALTON ROAD (north side) Landermere Cottage

II

Pair of attached cottages, now one house. C18, altered in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW with central stack. Early C19 rear wing with internal stack at end, forming a T-plan. C20 single-storey lean-to extension in rear right angle. Single-storey flat-roofed extension in rear left angle, 1985. One storey with attics. 2 C20 casements, and 2 more in gabled dormers. C20 door. Gambrel roofs. Chamfered transverse beams without stops. 3 wood-burning hearths. 2 original winder stairs to rear of stack. Primary straight bracing. Some inserted brick nogging in rear wall of main block. Altered to one house with minimal disturbance of original structure and internal features. In the tithe award of 1840 this building was owned by Sarah Sallows, and was occupied by 4 tenants, Henry Spurling, Simon Baker, Joseph Smith and John Wapling, implying additional sub-division at that time (Essex Record Office, D/CT 352).

Listing NGR: TM1946523014