Model Cottage

WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD BROCKFORD GREEN TM 16 NW 3/103 Model Cottage -

-- II House. Early C16. Renovated 1980's. Timber framed and rendered, thatched roof. 2-cell, end chimney form. 1½ storeys. Casement windows of 1980's. Boarded door into cross-entry. 2 gabled dormers with wide bargeboards and spike finials. Stack at left gable end entirely rebuilt 1980's. Old oak corbels below wallplate ends on right. Interior. Widely-spaced studding, some on lower floor removed; reverse-curved braces at service end. Evidence for diamond-mullioned windows, one on upper floor intact. Heavy plain ceiling joists; mutilated bridging beam in hall. Original trimming for stair at service end; this stair, with solid treads, was removed in 1980's. Narrow end bay has smoke-blackened timbers on upper floor, suggesting an original smoke bay or smoke hood above the hearth. Central closed truss over hall chamber, the tie beam cambered. Coupled-rafter roof.

Listing NGR: TM1234765680