Culpeper Cottage

Cottage, formerly subdivided into two cottages. C18 with a mid-C19 lean-to extension to the north-east. The circa 1980s rear extension is not of special interest.

MATERIALS: timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding with a gabled tiled roof with an off-central moulded brick chimneystack. Some stretcher bond brickwork to the base of the north-east and south-east sides.

PLAN: two storeys, three windows. The original part comprised two rooms on the ground floor and three on the first, but a partition was later removed on the first floor. The later C20 rear extension contains the staircase and bathroom.

EXTERIOR: the north-west or entrance front has three mid-C20 casement windows and a half-glazed door to the east end under a penticed porch. The south-west end has a tripartite casement window in the gable end and a large casement window to the ground floor. The north-east end has no windows in the lean-to extension but a C20 casement window in the rear flat-roofed extension. The south-east side has a two storey flat-roofed extension with two uPVC casement windows.

INTERIOR: the entrance leads directly into the northeastern room, the kitchen, which has exposed original softwood ceiling beams, which were originally covered. There are C20 applied beams to the wall frame, and the ground floor original north-east end wall, removed for the lean-to extension, is supported on square wooden piers. The original fireplace has been removed. The south-eastern ground floor living room has C20 ceiling beams and a brick C20 fireplace in stretcher bond with a wooden shelf. Access to the upper floor is through the 1980s rear extension which contains a straight flight staircase of traditional type with moulded balusters and a column newel post with a ball finial. The first-floor landing has three four-panelled C19 doors. Wallplates are visible in the two bedrooms and thin purlins are visible in the south eastern bedroom. The roof retains a few original rafters but consists mainly of C20 softwood rafters with a ridge-piece and a steel A frame.