Crooked Cottage

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR WATER LANE (EAST SIDE) TM 07 SW 3/130 Crooked Cottage - GV II House. Late C15, floor and stack inserted early to mid C17, cased and altered C20. Timber frame, Fletton brick casing, all plastered and whitewashed. Thatched roof. Originally a 2 bay open hall with a lower storeyed bay. 1 storey and attic. 1 and 2-light C20 leaded casements, 2 raking dormers, ridge stack with rebuilt cap inserted in upper bay to left. Left gable end 2-light attic casement, right gable end entrance and C20 casements. Interior: traces of a service doorway, original plain joists of small scantling with a trimmer to rear in service/solar bay. Hall has arched braces to open truss springing from below inserted floor with a stop chamfered axial binding beam and bar stop chamfered joists, parlour chamfered axial binding beam and altered walling. First floor frame is largely concealed. Open truss survives with a square crown post with simply roll and hollow moulded cap and base, 4 way 2- centred arched braces, thick smoke blackening on original rafters of small scantling, hall lower end closed truss survives, end bays largely reroofed in C17 and C20.

Listing NGR: TM0376874890