The Pit

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SU74NE CRONDALL ITCHELLANE 1687-0/12/10013 The Pit

II Cottage. Circa late C18 or early C19. Rendered chalk; brick nogging to exposed roof trusses at gable ends. Red brick lateral stack at rear and brick gable-end stack. Longstraw thatched roof with half-hipped gable ends and eyebrow dormers. PLAN: 2-bay plan with central direct entry at front into the larger right hand room, which is heated from a lateral stack at the back. The smaller left bay was probably originally unheated and is divided axially, having a smaller room at the front and what is now the kitchen at the back with a stack added on the left end wall and a doorway at the rear; the straight staircase against the rear wall rises from the kitchen. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Symmetrical 2-window front. Small 2-light casements with glazing bars, attic windows in roof with eyebrow heads. Central doorway with plank door and gabled open porch with tiled canopy on thin wooden posts. At rear plank door on right and lateral stack on left with tiled set-offs, tiled oven projection and rendered fuel store with tiled lean-to roof. Small brick stack on gable-end. INTERIOR: Much of the original carpentry and joinery survives including plank doors, exposed ceiling beams andjoists, brick fireplace with oven and timber lintel, straight staircase and rooftrusses with long curved braces rising up to the principals and with short ties in the spandrels.

Listing NGR: SU8020849570