Tudor Cottage

MATERIALS: timber framed and plastered with plain red tiles to the front pitch and pantiles to the rear pitch of the roof.

PLAN: a three-bay cottage comprising a two-room plan extended to the west in the C19.

EXTERIOR: a single-storey cottage with an attic. The gable roof has an offset, external left (east) chimneystack of the C17, and C19 ridge stacks to the centre and right (west) end. The facade has C20 windows with two, gabled domers above, and a boarded door with an added pediment at the west end. The west elevation, and part of the rear, is built with brick, over-painted. The east elevation is dominated by the staged, external stack; the end principal rafter is partly exposed at the gable. The rear elevation has C20 windows at the ground floor, three flat-roofed dormers at the first floor and a projecting conservatory at the east end. The C19 bay to the west is slightly advanced.

INTERIOR: the ground-floor, timber wall frame to the front retains pegged studs, and wall posts of substantial scantling, except at the centre where there has been replacement with low-grade materials. The cross frames to each end of the earliest phase and the room partition retain wall posts, midrails and some studs. The rear wall frame has been replaced with brick; the wall posts are modern replacements. The floor frame is of the C17: the transverse bridging beams are substantial with a wide chamfer, but are devoid of stops and attached to the wall posts with iron straps, suggesting that they are earlier beams were reused. The fireplace in the west room was rebuilt in the C20, but the east room retains a large inglenook fireplace with a replaced bresummer. The C19 bay to the west has ceiling joists of thin scantling.

The timber framing on the first floor survives well. The wall and cross frames retain jointed and pegged wall posts, including a jowled storey post to the rear of the west end room, and studs. The wall plates, tie beams and common rafter roof remain largely intact. There are C19 cupboard doors in the left-hand room.