Lace Cottage

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 9612 (West side) 12/20 No. 39 - (Lace Cottage) GV II House. Late medieval cruck framed house altered in C16/early C17, with late C17 added storeyed S parlour bay, house refronted in brick with heightened front eaves c.1800, restored 1982. Timber frame roughcast with painted brick front wall. Red machine made tile roof with higher and steeper part to S bay, and hipped N end extending to lower eaves at N. A 2-bays formerly single-storey cruck framed house facing E, comprising a hall and narrower N parlour bay. Former service bay probably replaced by new S parlour block in C17 of 2 storeys, cellar and attic with 1 1/2 storeys SW rear service wing. N parlour bay adapted to storeyed gabled crosswing with axial floor joists c.1600. Floor inserted in hall with chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists probably contemporary with new S parlour block and massive chimney formerly with oven, with fireplaces to hall, S parlour, and rear wing. Front wall renewed in brick with higher eaves and new front roofslope propped off original but front-wall crucks removed and uniform roof obliterated front gable of N parlour bay. E front now in 2 unequal parts. Longer N part has 2 first floor windows and 3 ground floor windows, 2 to left of a plank door. Recessed 3-light small-paned casement windows, with cambered arches to the ground floor openings. A N gable external chimney with a single-flue. The taller S part has a single recessed sash window with 5/10 panes of crown glass on first floor over a projecting rectangular oriel window with small panes, external folding shutters, and a canopy extending over a panelled door up steps. Opening below oriel lights cellar with an arched vaulted brick extension under the hall. S gable plastered with a 3-light casement attic window. 1½ storeys short rear wing with swept dormer. In rear outshut foot of central cruck exposed standing on a large stone with chalk packing. Cruck blade continues up with spur-tie, king-post and convex tension braces each side. Fragment of rear-wall blade of S cruck truss survives with straight wind-brace to rear purlin. Rear-blade in N gable stops as if cut-off to E of rear purlin, and wallplate of crosswing jointed into it as a later adaptation. Closed truss in middle has remains of wattle and daub infill in roofspace, and supporting the inserted floor a crossbeam with expanded end jointed into a jowled post inserted in front wall as part of secondary adaptation of N bay as a crosswing. The house of a succession of village craftsmen in C17 and C18. The S part was used as a shop. (RCHM Typescript: Davis(1980) No. 6).

Listing NGR: SP9651212575