The Old Cottage

SU78SW 6/10005

ROTHERFIELD PEPPARD COLMORE LANE The Old Cottage

GV

II

Hall house. C16, probably early-mid; floor inserted C17; divided into 2 cottages early C19; further alterations mid and late C20. Timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, plastered; external brick end stacks, that on right plastered. Plain tile roof. One storey with attic, 2 bays with rear outshut and side outshut on left. Centre, gabled, late-C20 porch flanked by 2-light windows with leaded casements; similar swept-roofed dormers above. Side outshut has similar window on left of half-glazed board door with deep canopy. Rear: on right a gabled porch flanked by small windows, that on left containing a 2-light, 4-pane wooden casement. Right return: on right of chimney, 2 small windows to ground floor and one above. INTERIOR: the timber framing survives in the rear wall on both floors, and to all walls above mid-rail height: sill plate, mid rail, wall plate, vertical studs, unjowelled wall posts, slightly curved braces to cambered tie- beams. Collared queen-post roof trusses with clasped diagonally-set purlins, curved wind-braces, smoke-blackened rafters running the full length of the roof, inserted square- sectioned ridge-piece. Timber-framed partition wall between bays (inserted in roof, implying later insertion). In left bay on ground floor, chamfered spine-beam with cyma-moulded stops. Old floorboards to 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SU7003281989