Porch Cottages Tudor Cottage

TM 14 NE TUDDENHAM ST. MARTIN THE STREET

3/32 Nos. 1 & 2 Porch Cottages - and Tudor Cottage

• II

Terrace of 3 cottages, originally one house. Late-mediaeval core, with alterations of late C16 and late C19. 1 storey with attics, the central section originally containing an open hall. Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled roofs with C19 casement dormers. Internal and end chimneys of red brick. C19 small-pane casements and boarded entrance doors; each cottage has an open pantiled 1-storey gabled porch on wooden posts. Nos 1 and 2 Porch Cottages comprise the formerly open hall, the soot-encrusted rafters reused in the C16 wind-braced clasped purlin roof. Tudor Cottage incorporates a small original end cell with lodged upper floor; this end was extended to right in C16 and C17. Also in C16 a large chimney and upper floor were inserted into the hall. The house was subdivided, and gabled rear wings added to each cottage in late C19.

Listing NGR: TM1916948500