Burnt House Cottage

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BARKING DARMSDEN TM 05 SE

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Cottage. Circa mid to late C17 with C20 extensions. Rendered timber frame on brick plinth. Thatched roof with gabled ends. External gable end stacks each with tall brick shafts.

Plan: 3-room plan,the original house is the 2-room plan range to the left (west), its left hand room heated from a large gable-end stack; the present entrance is directly into the front of the smaller unheated right hand room which has a later winding staircase in the front right hand corner. In the C20 a 1-room plan addition was built at the right end with a gable end stack and a single storey extension was built onto the left end.

Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymetrical 3-windows south front. Various C20 casements and a large C20 flat -roof dormer to right of centre. Doorway near centre with C20 glazed porch. At rear also C20 casements and similar dormer. Interior: Left hand room has chamfered cross-beam with bar stops and fire place blocked, its lintel cut through. Right hand room has exposed axail joists but no main beam and winding staircase in corner. In rear (north) wall a pair of C17 wooden ovolo-moulded 2-light windows have recently been uncovered. First floor not seen but it is thought that the original roof structure survives.

Listing NGR: TM0962652943