St Cuthberts Cottage And Bridge Cottage

NORTH STREET TQ 75 SW BARMING (West Side) 2/10 St Cuthbert's Cottage and Bridge Cottage, 25.7.52 (formerly listed as 23.5.67 St Cuthbert's Cottage) (No 23) II House, now house pair. C16 or possibly earlier, with C17 rear wing. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick with exposed principal posts, first floor rendered. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys and cellar on stone plinth. Low gable end jetty to right. Roof hipped to left with gablet. Slender projecting brick stack to left. Rear stack to second timber-framed bay from left, to junction of wing and main range. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded 2-light casements. Door to St Cuthbert's Cottage to right of centre, with 4 sunk beaded panels and 2 top lights. Short timber-framed rear wing to left, with higher ridge. Shorter addition (stair turret?) in angle between main range and wing, with hipped roof and with boarded door to Bridge Cottage to its right side. Interior: not inspected, but measured drawings in the National Monuments Record show jowled principal posts to ground and first floor, and sans-purlin collared common rafter roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7251755038