Swan Hill Cottage

THORNDON HALL ROAD TM 16 NW 3/76 Swan Hill Cottage - GV II House. C15. Timber framed and plastered, thatched roof. 1½ storeys. 3-cell form with former open hall. Various old casement windows. One small eyebrow dormer. Small C19 colourwashed brick lean-to set forward to left, with mid C20 door in side wall. Internal stack with small shaft. Later stack against front gable end. Largely intact frame visible inside. 2-centre arched cross- entry doorway in front wall. Open truss removed, the cambered tie beam repositioned against the stack. On the ground floor, one buttress-shafted wallpost with the lower portion of a brace. Upper end wall of hall intact. Medieval joists in parlour with trimming for stair. Service partition removed. Stack inserted in lower bay of hall. Floor in hall inserted c.1600, with axial bridging beam and chamfered joists. Service end has on-edge pitchpine joists of C18 or early C19.

Listing NGR: TM1440368932