Dawes Cottage

LITTLE BOOKHAM LITTLE BOOKHAM STREET TQ/15/SW (west side) 5/182

7.9.51 No.3 (Dawes Cottage)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C16, enlarged in later C16. Timber frame with rendered brick cladding at ground floor, brick nogging above, with some tile-hanging and red tile roofs. L-plan: hall range of 3 structural bays with a projecting wing aded to the 3rd. One-and-a-half storey hall and 2-storey wing; the hall has a doorway in the centre (under a pitched canopy), a modern 3-light casement to the left, some exposed posts and light studs above ground floor level, a small dormer offset left of centre, and an axial ridge chimney offset to the right; the left gable wall has a window at ground floor, and tile hung gable with an attic window. The projecting wing, which half overlaps the right-hand end of the hall range, has exposed wall-posts with convex braces to the tie- beam and an arched brace to the wall-plate of the re-entrant, 2 queen struts and a king strut; a square modern window at ground floor and a 2-light casement at 1st floor; a small 2-light casement at ground floor of the re- entrant side; and an external chimney stack on the return wall, Interior: the hall range is of 3 structural bays, the centre narrower than the ends and now containing the chimney stack with back-to-back inglenook fireplaces; the timber- framing includes large stop-chamfered beams and joists at ground floor, and jowelled wallposts, wallplates, tie-beams and one arch-brace; vacant mortices in the posts of the 2nd frame suggest that this frame was formerly closed (perhaps as part of a smoke bay); wallplate at front of 3rd bay removed for addition of wing.

Listing NGR: TQ1258054379