Cooks Farm Cottage Cooks Farmhouse

TL 85 NE HAWSTEAD LAWSHALL ROAD

5/59 Cooks Farmhouse and Cooks Farm Cottage. 14.7.55 (Formerly listed under Hawstead Green)

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House and cottage, formerly farmhouse; late C16 with C17 alterations. 2 storeys and attics; 2-cell lobby-entrance plan, with service wing. Timber- framed and rendered. Plaintiled roof with axial chimney of red brick having 4 attached flattened-hexagon flues on a square base. Mid C20 casements and 1- storey plaintiled entrance porch with battened and boarded entrance door. Some good internal features: diamond-mullioned and cavetto-moulded mullioned windows; close-studding; wind-bracd clasped-purlin roof. Eacly C17 alterations include: a rare example of wall-plastering closely simulating oak wainscotting, a wide ovolo-moulded mullioned window over the entrance, insertion of chimneys and newel staircase, and attic floor. A further attic formed C18 at purlin level. The cottage possibly an earlier 2-cell C16 building relegated to service rooms after construction of Cooks Farmhouse; 1 1/2 storeys and attics, timber-framed and rendered with areas of herringbone pargetting in panels. Thatched roof with C17 axial chimney of red brick having saw-tooth pattern shafts. C19 and C20 small-pane casements. C19 boarded entrancedoor.

Listing NGR: TL8622658040