Cottage 30 Metres South Of Old School At Turmer

A pair of cottages, now combined into one dwelling, was built in the late 18th century and altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The construction is primarily of brick in an irregular bond, with a four- or five-stretcher pattern of headers to stretchers. One bay is timber-framed and clad in weatherboard on a brick plinth. The roof is thatched over long straw. The building is one-and-a-half storeys high, with three original bays and an added fourth bay at the left end. The front has two board doors with a small window between them, and wider windows, all with segmental brick arches. The windows have small-pane wooden casements. Three similar windows are located above, with eyebrow dormers, and the window on the left has a section of weatherboarding on its right side. A store bay, on the left, has a ledged board door. The roof is half-hipped at the right end, hipped on the left, and comes down low over the store bay. Brick stacks are located at each end.

Inside, the ground floor contains brick and tile flooring. In the right-hand room, there is a spine beam with run-out stops and chamfer. Fireplaces with mantel shelves on long brackets and mid-19th century iron fires are present; the left room features a Coalbrookdale-type range with a boiler on one side and a bread oven on the other, housed within cupboards. A turf hob oven by Joseph Arnfield of Ringwood, dated 1860, is in the right-hand room. Steep wooden winder staircases are situated against each end wall, the right-hand staircase having a run-out chamfer to the newel post, both with plain balustrades at the top. Board doors feature H, L, and cockshead hinges, along with 19th-century ironmongery. One door at the foot of the left staircase has a viewing hole, and the door beside the right-hand fireplace is a reused 17th-century panelled door. On the rear, there is some brick patching and a single-light window centrally located. The right return is ivy-covered, revealing one single-light window to the gable.