Pullens Cottage

TQ 16 SW ELMBRIDGE LEIGH HILL ROAD (east side) Cobham

5/213 No 2 (Pullens Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C16-early C17, altered. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill now replaced by painted brick infill; painted brick. Plain tile roof. 2-storey house of 2 bays with smoke bay at right end; chimney inserted C17; bay added to right and front wall replaced late C18-early C19; 1960s 2-storey addition to rear left; 1989 2-storey addition to rear right. Entrance front: 2 1st floor windows. Plinth. Entrance on left side of right-hand bay has board door protected by early C20 gabled porch of reused timbers with brick gable and plain tile roof. To either side a segmental brick-arched window, that on left with a side-sliding sash that on right with a 2-light small-pane case- ment. Platt band. Two 3-light small-pane casements to 1st floor. Stepped dentilled eaves. Roof half-hipped with gablet at left end. Old brick ridge stack to right of centre (above former smoke bay). Rear: C20 additions not of special interest. Main range has a 2-light window to right on each floor, that on ground floor segmental-arched, that on 1st floor a side-sliding sash. Left return: a 3-light window to ground floor; timber mid-rail; C20 2-light lst-floor window; tie beam and collared queen post truss in gable; external stack on left. Interior: former housebody (at centre) has chamfered joists with stepped hollow chamfers; cambered, chamfered, timber bressumer to former fireplace. In left bay, joists are of larger scantling with stepped run-out stops to chamfers. 1st floor: smoke-bay rail has mortices in soffit from former partition wall; cross-beam between left-hand bays also morticed from former partition wall. Roof not fully inspected, but has smoke-blackened rafters and the former right-hand closing truss has cambered collar, studs, and wattle and daub infill.

Listing NGR: TQ1135360161