Luzborough Cottage

SU 32 SE 1765/3/10014

ROMSEY EXTRA BOTELY ROAD No 172, Luzborough Cottage

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House. C17; altered C18, C19 and C20. Timber-framed, infilled in brick, ground floor wall-framing replaced in brick. Thatched roof with gabled and half -hipped ends. , Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan, the right [N] room heated from a gable-end fireplace, left room probably originally unheated; the two rooms subdivided later to form four rooms on the ground floor. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical2-bay east front, the small-framing on the first floor has tension-braces, ground floor underbuilt in red brick; plank door to left of centre and G20 2-and 3-light casement to left and right; attic eyebrow to right with 3-light casement with glazing bars. 2-light casement in south end wall. North gable-end clad in corrugated sheet steel, and with later weatherboarded outshut concealing English garden wall bond brickwork of ground floor. 2-bay rear LW], ground floor brick, first floor small-framing with tension-braces, right end rebuilt in brick; small 2-light casements with glazing bars, attic casements in eyebrow eaves; doorway to right of centre with plank door. INTERIOR: Exposed chamfered axial beam with hollow-step stops and exposed joists; ground floor subdivided; winder stairs beside stack replaced. Attic ceiled, but tie-beam truss and wind-braces visible, and common-rafters exposed under eaves outside.

Listing NGR: SU3756120892