Tudor Cottage

BREDFIELD THE STREET TM 25 SE (East side) 3/42 Tudor Cottage GV II House, formerly farmhouse. C17 with C20 additions. Timber framed, rendered and colourwashed, with a plain tile roof. Three-cell, baffle entry plan. Two storeys. Road front: strips of planking simulating timber framing. Blocked doorway at right of centre now holding a single C20 horizontal slit window. To far left a C20 plank door with single-light casements to either side and a timber gabled porch in front. To the ground floor are also two 3-light C19 casements. The first floor has three 2- light casements of C19 or C20 date. Ridge stack to right of centre with renewed brickwork above the blocked doorway and gable end stack at left of C19 date. At far left is a C19 single-storey addition which has a 2-light C20 window at right and a 1/2-glazed doorway at left. Rear: to left is a C20 lean-to addition which has French windows to the centre and 3-light windows at either side and to right of this a 2-light and a single-light casement. To the first floor are, at right of centre, a 2-light gabled dormer window and at far right a C20 addition which has a glazed porch in front. The right hand gable end has a 3-light casement to the ground floor set in projecting brick walling and a 3-light casement of C20 date to the first floor.

Interior: Chamfered, end-stopped ceiling beams to the ground floor rooms and chamfered bressumer to fireplace in the sitting room which has renewed C20 brickwork enclosing the earlier bricks. Through braces showing in the dining room walls which are studded. Plank doors with strap hinges. The baffle entry leads directly onto the staircase which has two 1/4-turns. Cambered tie beam to one first floor room with closed truss.

Listing NGR: TM2688253269