Little Upper Hill Street Cottage

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

1/114 Little Upper Hill Street Cottage

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Farmhouse. Late C16, with late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor weatherboarded (formerly tile-hung). Plain tile roof. Lobby-entry plan of 3 timber-framed bays. Fourth bay added to right in C17 or C18. Two storeys, on rendered plinth. Hipped roof. Brick stack towards right end of left end bay, and another to left end of added right bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 two-light casements. Ribbed door under left stack, half-glazed door under right stack. Interior: central and right bays form one room, with chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists. Mortices for four-light diamond-mullion window with shutter groove to right end of room. Tension braces to each floor of former right gable end. Added right bay has chamfered cross beam to right of stack, and axial joists. Left fireplace has wooden bressumer tenoned to rear wall- post and to a post towards front of house, infilled with apparently later brick jambs, and possibly part of a timber stack. Arch-braced tie-beam with unmorticed soffit immediately to right of stack has a stud and daub partition above it angled to right, away from stack. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to right stack.

Listing NGR: TR1165545419