Flinders Cottage

FRAMSDEN THE STREET TM 15 NE 4/59 Flinders Cottage - - II

House, late C15 or early C16 with alterations of c.1800. 1 storey and attics. A 3-cell open hall house. Timber-framed and roughcast. Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers of c.1800. An axial C18 chimney of red brick and a C19 end chimney to right. C19.small-pane casements. C19 or early C20 gabled entrance porch with mid C20 boarded door. The open hall has been greatly altered, the open truss being removed. One blocked rear cross-entry doorway has a 4-centred arched head and evidence for a spere. The blocked 6-light front hall window has some square mullions. The parlour cell has massive lodged floor joists and good close-studding with wind-bracing of convex arch form. Roof structure not visible. In late C16 a chimney was placed near the cross-entry, and an upper floor of chamfered joists inserted in the hall. Circa 1800 the service cell was extended to left and the partition (which contained two original service room doorways) was repositioned.

Listing NGR: TM1983359734