Well Cottages

A house, now a row of houses, likely dating to the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations in the late 16th or early 17th century, a facade from the late 17th or early 18th century, and further alterations and an addition from the late 18th or early 19th century. The main range is timber framed with a red and grey brick facade in Flemish bond. To the left is a red brick addition also in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The main range originally comprised an open hall of two timber-framed bays and probably storeyed end bays. A two-range addition was built to the left, with parallel ranges and hipped roofs to the left, set lower than the main range roof. The main range roof is hipped to the left. There is a flat-topped brick gable to the right, featuring a plain eaves band and kneelers. A brick stack is positioned on the front slope of the roof, to the right of the centre of the main range, in the shorter right-hand hall bay. A brick gable-end ridge stack is located to the right. The fenestration is irregular, with four recessed twenty-pane sashes with thin glazing bars; one to the left addition and two to each side of the main-range stack. A half-glazed door is located under an open timber-framed porch at the left end of the addition, leading to the property numbered 4, and a ribbed door with a gabled plain tile canopy is situated to the left of the centre of the main range, leading to property number 2. Further doors are present in a rear lean-to. The interior was only partly inspected. A left-end-of-hall partition includes a tension-braced central stud on the ground floor. The ceiling features a cambered, hollow-chamfered central-truss tie-beam with a hollow-chamfered fillet and arch brace, and a moulded octagonal crown post. There’s also a chamfered cross beam, an axial beam and original joists to an inserted hall floor. A two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window is set into the rear wall, illuminating the staircase behind the stack. A late 16th or early 17th century brick fireplace in English bond is located to the left side of the stack, with stepped, chamfered brickwork to the rear wall, seats, and a cambered bressumer.