Elm Cottage

PIRTON BURY END TL 1431 (South side)

7/143 Nos. 12 (Elm Cottage), - and 14

• II

House, now 2 houses. C16, with earlier crosswing, floor and chimney inserted in C17, divided in C19. Timber frame on stuccoed plinth, roughcast with steep pitched old red tile roofs, now of red tiles at front. A large T-plan house facing N with taller 2-storeys crosswing at W. Large internal chimney a third from E end and projecting chimney on W side of wing (rebuilt). N front has 4 windows to each floor. 2-lights flush casement windows. 4-centred, hollow-chamfered, broad doorway at LH end of front. Gabled porch to ground floor of crosswing. Single-storey C20 garage linked to N end, and 2-storeys S extension c.1985. Hall range consists of 2 bays at S and a longer hall bay next the crosswing which is a separate older structure. Interior has exposed frame, swept jowls to posts, chamfered cambered tie beam on curved braces. Curved tension braces in walls. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled butts. Close studded front wall. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Shutter grooves under wallplate for mullioned windows. Collar and vertical struts in end trusses. When the central brick chimney was built in the 2nd bay from E the tie-beam of the truss immediately to E was cut away and a rougher one introduced further to W hard against the stack.

Listing NGR: TL1467231482