Church Cottage

RATTLESDEN UPPER STREET TL 95 NE 3/122 Church Cottage - GV II House, late C14 or C15 with remodelling of C16 and later. A 2-storey cross- wing whose main range once stood to its left along the street frontage. Timber-framed and plastered, the front gable rebuilt in c19 brick (now painted). Concrete plaintiled roof. An axial late C16 or early C17 chimney of pink/buff brick, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20 red brick. A mid c19 square bay shop window with small panes, linked to a flat canopy over the entrance door on carved console brackets; C19 half-glazed 4-panelled door. The front 2 or 3 bays of the house are the earliest, with heavy studding, jowled storey posts and cambered tie-beams with evidence for short archbraces. The house was extended rearwards beyond the chimney in C15 or early C16: heavy close- studding, blocked diamond mullioned windows and coupled-rafter roof (front section of roof not examined). A further rearward extension is possibly C16 and tapers to an exceptionally narrow span. The 1st floor structure and part of walling at the front were altered in C17.

Listing NGR: TL9773959041