Tudor Cottage

WATTON-AT-STONE WHEMPSTEAD TL 32 SW (Southeast side) 2/206 Tudor Cottage - - II

House. Late C16 with minor additions and alterations. Timber frame. Pargetted rendering with some weatherboarding. Tiled roof. 3 bays forming an L on plan with a stair wing to rear. 2 storeys. Gable fronted bay to right projects forward with an entrance to left, C20 weatherboarded gabled porch. Ground floor weatherboarding with a flush frame. 2 light small pane casement. First floor rendered with a similar casement. Exposed plates in steep gable. Set back to left is a bay with ground floor 2 and 3 light and first floor 2 light casements. Later low gabled outshut added to left end which was probably jettied originally. Original principal stack is to rear of slightly lower ridge between left and central bays. Right return has an C18 external stack with offsets. Glazed and weatherboarded entrance lean-to towards rear. Ground floor weatherboarding, first floor render with scattered small casements. To rear a gable to left with a lean-to outshut extending across to lower gabled stair wing to centre, lower weatherboarding and a 2 light casement. Catslide roof over lean-to outshut to right. Interior: ogee stopped chamfered axial binding beam, with low relief Tudor roses and a diamond lozenge. Stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and joists. Newel stair.

Listing NGR: TL3192220978