Farm Cottage

TL 43 SW & TL 4033 ANSTEY CHEAPSIDE (North side)

2/11 & 6/11 Farm Cottage -

GV II

House. C16 open hall house, inserted floor and chimney late C16, renovated and rear bakehouse C18. Timberframe on stuccoed sill roughcast with dark weatherboarding at front and E end. Steep old red tile roof. Corrugated sheet roof to weatherboarded bakehouse. A small, 2 storeys and loft, 2 windows wide house facing S with internal chimney backing onto cross-passage, and single-storey rear bakehouse at NW. The house represents the hall, cross-passage, and storeyed service end of a late medieval house, presumably extending further W. The inserted hall fireplace, backing onto the cross-passage has elaborate late C16 moulded lintol and a heavy chamfered cross-beam with hollow stops suggests the inserted floor at higher level than in E part which has an axial beam and squared joists at 2 levels, the upper for a loft with external E access. The front has 2 2-light flush casement windows with small panes on each floor, a boarded door with lean-to slated hood, and shaped ends to rafters. Exposed timbers inside with jowled posts and heavy cambered tie-beams with curved braces in open truss of hall, each member chamfered. Large brick oven in bakehouse. Stair against rear wall beside chimney. 2 moulded plank doors with decorative iron strap hinges. (Bailey (1980)20).

Listing NGR: TL4099933162