Sawford Cottage

PIRTON GREAT GREEN TL 1431 (West side)

7/151 No. 12 - (Sawford Cottage)

GV II

House and stable, now one house. Early C17, floor inserted and chimney in late C17, outer walls renewed in brick when house divided in C19, renovated in C20. Timber frame on brick sill, cased and in house largely replaced in red brick now painted or roughcast. Steep old red tile roof, half hipped at E. A 3-cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S with its E gable on the old building line facing the green, and a one-bay former stable attached to its W end. Formerly single-storey throughout, floor has been inserted with a large internal chimney to heat the middle room and the chamber over. C19 external E gable chimney added later. S front has 4 flush casement windows, central gabled porch, and 4 gabled dormers at the eaves. Separate door into W end. Timber frame of one-bay former stable complete with jowled-posts, curved braces to cambered tie-beams, inclined straight queen-posts, and clasped-purlin roof-structure. In house tie-beams cut for doorways, straight braces to tie-beams, long straight wind-braces, clasped-purlin roof, and E gable truss exposed with collar, and peg-holes for studding of lower walling now replaced by brick. Axial beams roughly chamfered. Large open fireplace on ground floor with lintel and narrow bricks in half-arch to carry hearth of chamber fireplace over. Face-halved bladed scarf joint in front wallplate.

Listing NGR: TL1447331560