Pipers Cottage

TL 96 SW HESSETT THE STREET (EAST SIDE)

4/74 Pipers Cottage -

GV II House, early or mid C16; remodelled mid C20. 2 storeys. 3-cell cross-entry plan. Timber-framed and plastered. Concrete plaintiled roof, formerly thatched: an axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt C20 in narrow buff bricks. Mid C20 casements. Mid C20 battened and boarded door at cross-entry position: gabled porch on posts. Interior: A submedieval house of unusual form, in 4 bays. Both end bays have heavy medieval floor joists, but the 1st floor over the hall has regular unchamfered 1st floor joists of mid or late C16 appearance and may have been inserted. The left-hand bay has had an archbraced open truss dividing it from the adjacent bay at 1st storey. A chimney stack with very large cambered lintel backs onto the cross-entry. Complete coupled-rafter roof, half-hipped at both ends until C17. The house was either of "croglofft" form when built, with a single-bay open hall and an open sleeping loft adjacent to left, or of more advanced form where a 2-bay chamber extends over both hall and parlour.

Listing NGR: TL9363661647