Church Cottage

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM VICARAGE LANE (north side)

9/89 Church Cottage

GV II

Probably special-purpose building associated with church Now house. Early C16 or, probably, earlier, with C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed. Left section clad with red brick, largely in Flemish bond. Right cross-wing red and grey brick in Flemish bond to front, but with slightly older-looking brickwork to rear. Rear wing modified header bond to left side, flint with red brick dressings to rear. Plain tile roof. C16 or earlier left section presently comprises one relatively short and narrow bay. Two-bay C17 cross-wing to right end, set back from front elevation and projecting to rear. C19 rear wing to left, infilling angle. 2 storeys. Left section has medieval cellar, underbuilt jetty to front and to left and right gable ends, and tops of front corner posts exposed. Plat band to brickwork, returning to left and right. Roof of left section hipped to left and right, with short ridge. Roof of right cross-wing hipped to front and rear, with gablet to front and with lower eaves and ridge than left section. Rear wing hipped to rear. Central rear stack to left section. Formerly projecting brick stack with ovolo-moulded plinth to flue, to right side of cross-wing. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one three-light casement to left section, and one twelve-pane sash in open box, with reeded architrave, to front gable end of cross-wing. Half-glazed door with segmental head to gable end of cross-wing. Weatherboarded late C19 lean-to with plain tile roof abutting left gable end of left section; formerly the parish bier-house. C19 flint lean-to with red and grey brick dressings and plain tile roof, to right side of cross-wing , with ribbed door with segmental head to front end. Brick in front elevation of left section dated DD169 (3/5). Interior: left section has two dragon beams, their inner ends only three joists apart. Broad close-set joists. Three stone corbels to cellar. Brick fireplace with bressumer to rear wall. Cross-wing has axial joists, and red brick fireplace in English bond, with wooden bressumer. Chamfered brick plinth and shoulders to rear of stack. House abuts the churchyard.

Listing NGR: TR1774143790