Hampton Cottage

LEATHERHEAD CHURCH STREET TQ 1656 SE (west side) 12/128 No. 64 (Hampton Cottage) 7.9.51 (formerly listed as No.28)

GV II

Cottage, now museum. Mid C17, altered, and recently restored. Timber frame of elm (on modern brick plinth), with rendered brick nogging, pantile roof. Rectangular plan of 3 structural bays, gable to road. Two low storeys; the timber framing exposed in both gable walls and on the north side (mostly above ground floor level) consists of corner and wall-posts, mid-rails, down-braces from the posts, regularly spaced studs, wallplates, and a roof truss in the east gable wall with 2 queen struts (the west gable wall apparently rebuilt); some timbers have scratched carpenter's marks, and the 1st bay on the north side incorporates an unglazed wooden diamond-mullion window at 1st floor (now with secondary glazing inside). The gabled facade to the road now has a small oriel window and a casement at ground floor, and an inserted 2-light casement above, breaking into the tie-beam; the north side has a modern gabled porch offset left of centre, a casement to the left and another above and to the right; the south side has 2 external chimney stacks (that to the rear probably C17); and the rear gable wall has a doorway and modern oriel at ground floor, and a 2-light casement above. Interior: exposed timber framing and some wattle-and-daub panels; staircase inserted in middle bay. History: erected on glebe land between 1642 and 1682, and occupied at the latter date by the widow of a falconer (reference: LDLHS History, pp 310, 312).

Listing NGR: TQ1661656324