Briar Cottage Shepherd'S Close

TL 8467-8567 FORNHAM ALL SAINTS HENGRAVE ROAD

3/15 No.25(Briar Cottage) - No.27 (Shepherd's Close)

GV II

House, formerly divided into 3, now into 2. Probably mid C17, but using some older timbers. One-and-a-half storeys; basic 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and plastered, with thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. C18 3-light and 2-light casement windows with cast iron frames, pintle hinges and square-leaded panes; one eyebrow dormer with C20 diamond- leaded panes to 2-light casement window. 2 plank doors. Interior of No.25 has timbers exposed and evidence of alterations and later partitioning; reused timbers, some with external weathering; plain clasped side purlin roof with no principal rafters, but several reused smoke-blackened timbers from a medieval house. No 27 (to west of stack) has a very fine carved and moulded late C15 ceiling-beam placed in front of the chimney-stack. This has been shortened, and clearly came from an important local building.

Listing NGR: TL8351367376