Women'S Institute

SHOTTISHAM THE STREET TM 34 SW (South side) 10/131 Women's Institute II Row of 3 cottages, now converted for use as a meeting hall. C16 or C17 with C19 additions and alterations. Flemish bond brick with C20 plain tile roof, originally thatched. Two cottages now knocked through to form a hall office and lavatories, one retained as kitchen and storage. Single storey with attic. Entrance front: Early-C19 walling. The 2 cottages at right have a higher ridge than that at left. Three doorways with cambered heads having plank doors set at right of centre, right and left. Cambered-headed 2-light windows to far right, far left and right of centre. To left of the near-central doorway are 3 windows, one at left with a cambered head of 2 casement lights which was formerly a doorway, now partially bricked up. To right of this is a 2-light casement with flat-arched head and at right of this a single-light window-with similar head. Two raking dormer windows to the attic, that at left has 4x3 sash panes, that at right having 7x3 panes, both of C20 date. Ridge chimney stack at right with 2 pots. Single-flued stack to the left hand cottage. Gable end at left and 1/2-hipped roof at right. Right hand gable end: projecting brick plinth and rendered walling. Left hand gable end: similar with single-light cambered-headed light to the gable. Rear: rendered save for the plinth which shows C16 bricks with later patching in C19 bricks and cement blocks. Single-light windows to extreme right and left and 2-light C20 window to left of centre and 3-light C19 casement at right.

Interior: Wall posts to rear wall and blocked window, chamfered tie beams and ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: TM3166744422