Church Corner Cottage Church Room Crossways Cottage

TM 48 SE WRENTHAM CHURCH STREET

1/63 Church Corner Cottage, - Church Room and Crossways Cottage

GV II

Formerly a guildhall, now 2 cottages with Church Room between. Late C15/early C16 with later additions at both ends, that to the right of mid or late C19. Late C19 rear addition to Church Room. Timber framed, pebbledash render, the right hand addition in red brick; thatched roof. 2 storeys. 5 windows, various casements of C18 and C19. 2 plank doors and one boarded door. 2 internal stacks; to the right is a parapet gable end with integral stack. The original structure has 3 bays, with a queen post roof. The roof structure was originally open at first floor level and there were 2 ornamental open trusses, of which one remains, with evidence for the second. The surviving truss has slender octagonal queen posts with moulded bases and well-carved moulded and crenellated capitals; the arcade plates are slightly canted inwards. The remainder of the roof has been somewhat altered. In the Church Room there is a floor beam with broach stop-chamfers and short arched-bracing to the wall posts. Apart from this very little timbering is visible.

Listing NGR: TM4896782986