Pithouse Cottages

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MAPLEDURHAM

SU 67 NE _ 9/10000 No 3 (Pithouse Cottages)

GV II

Former open-hall cruck - framed house. Dated to 1454/5, ceiled C17 and later alterations C19 and C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill; brick additions. Deep tiled roof, hipped to west end, gabled to east, with 2 brick chimney stacks and gabled dormers, 1 to north, 2 to south. 1½ storeys. South front, 3 windows at ground floor and 3 doorways. Mostly 2 light 4-pane casements. Interior reveals 3 full cruck trusses (eastern truss removed mid C20) forming a 3-bay house with 2 bay hall serving as both hall and service and having a mantle beam open truss, on the lower side of which the position of the smoke louvre is visible; C17 chimney stack inserted at the chamber end to serve both areas. Most of the original roof with curved windbraces, remains under the later tiled one. At the upper end of the hall a blocked window the diagonally set mullions survives half above and half below an inserted C17 floor of wide boards and chamfered and stopped spine beam.

Listing NGR: SU6872077410