The Thatch Cottage

1917/0/10055 12-AUG-03

WESTFIELD BLUEMANS LANE The Thatch Cottage

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Cottage. Late C17 or early C18, refenestrated in early C20. Timberframed with framing visible to east or front elevation with rendered infill, orther elevations rendered with corner posts visible. Hipped thatched roof with painted brick chimneystack to north end. Two storeys with irregular fenestration of C20 casements with leaded lights. Plan form is two bay end chimneystack house with three outshuts, northern at least not original. EXTERIOR: Front or east elevation is of two storeys with visible timber frame of large panels including midrail and curved brace to northern outshut. Large bay to north and smaller bay to south. Two casements with leaded lights to the first floor and five to the ground floor. Off central C20 gabled wooden porch. Other elevations eash have an eyebrow dormer window in catslide roofs. Four small casement windows and central doorcase in west elevation. INTERIOR: Open fireplace with wooden bressumer. Both ground and first floor rooms have centrally placed spine beams and floor joists, those forming the first floor ceiling possibly resited. Where visible the three principal rafters along the western wall have splay cut jowls with mortice evidence for footbraces. The north wall is weathered and appears to have originally been an external wall but is now within the northern lean-to. Both north and south two storey walls have stave holes suggesting they were originally lath and daubed. The roof is of paired rafters, pegged and tenoned at the ridge, the southern hip retaining its pegged jack collar.