Belks White Cottage

OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (West Side) 3/230 Belks GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C14 or early C15 with mid C16 alterations, restored in late C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Gabled end jetties underbuilt. Exposed principal posts and midrails. Peg-holes suggest broadly-spaced close- studding. Tension braces to narrower left hall bay. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Gable end stack to left and brick ridge stack to right end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 2- light casement to each end bay, small single light over door, and late C20 rectangular timber-framed first-floor bay window with gable, to right hall bay. Blocked 6-light diamond mullion window to rear wall of right hall bay. Boarded door set within durns to left end of left hall bay. Stone lean-to to right end. Interior: exposed framing. Evidence for service doors to left end of hall, and for stairs to right end bay. Sans-purlin roof. Substantial remains of timber and plaster stack with stone base, backing on to cross-passage. Cambered chamfered bressumer to fireplace, and chamfered stone jambs with broach stops. Moulded axial beam to inserted floor. Formerly known as White Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ7978953699