Pair Of Cottages About 40 Metres West Of White House Farm House

YAXLEY NORWICH ROAD (NORTH WEST TM 17 SW SIDE)

3/159 Pair of cottages about 40m west of White House Farm House

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House, now 2 dwellings. C15 or early C16, extended and altered early C17 and C19. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. Originally probably a 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower end, parlour bay and stack added to form a 3 cell cross passage plan. 1 storey and attic throughout. Entrance in cross passage position between service and hall bays to left of centre, a recessed boarded door with flanking 2-light glazing bar casements, all with headboards, a 3-light gabled dormer. Parlour addition has an entrance to left of centre with a 6-light part opening transomed casement with hoodboard, 2-light gabled dormer. Axial stack behind ridge to right of centre. Left gable end entrance and attic 3-light window, bargeboards. Set back slightly to right is a lower C19 1-storey and attic clay lump addition, 2 light casements, shallow pantiled roof. To rear parlour bays project slightly further with higher eaves, clay lump and brick outshut. Interior: earlier cottage to left not inspected. Parlour has close studding largely concealed, ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts, 3 and 4-light diamond mullion window openings, roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM1231174489