Bentleys Cottage

TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON GREEN (East side)

3/36 No. 5 24.11.66 (Bentleys Cottage) (formerly listed as No. 1, and No. 2)

GV II

House. C15 or earlier S crosswing, hall range early/mid C17, N bay probably C19, renovated after stripping to frame 1973. Timber frame on low black painted sill, roughcast with frame exposed in older parts. Steep old red tile roofs, S wing hipped. 2-storeys house, facing W, set back on large plot next village green. Projecting 2-storeys jettied W crosswing has catslide W outshut, set back, and front gable altered to hip. Convex curved tension braces and central window on 1st floor, and straight tension brace to ground floor. Higher 2-storeys hall range has central chimney and framing in 2 bays with very narrow central chimney bay in which ground floor 2-light window replaces former lobby-entrance doorway. Stair to rear of stack. 2 windows to each floor. Flush 2-lights casements. Single bay N extension with matching window to each floor. Boarded door now gives entrance into S wing. Round-headed recess in each face of large square chimney stack. Interior has exposed timbers with 2 3-lights original diamond mullioned windows and shutter grooves in S wing, arched braces, cambered tie-beams, collar rafter roof. Axial beams carry floors of hall range, and upper room has a 4-centred arched brick chamfered open fireplace. Windows with ovolo-moulded mullions remain. S wing has edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in wallplate. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3225307860