The Old Cottage

ASHTEAD OTTWAYS LANE TQ 3/32 The Old Cottage

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Farmhouse, subsequently bakery, now house. Probably later C17, enlarged in later C18 or early C19; altered in C20. Timber frame and brick, now roughcast (painted white), red tile roof on 2 levels. Three structural bays with continuous rear outshut, plus one-bay addition at right-hand (west) end and lean-to addition at left end. Two storeys with three 1st-floor windows (in the main range only); at ground floor the 1st and 2nd bays have a blocked former doorway at the junction, a 3-fight casement to the left, and an 18-pane fixed window to the right, all under a black-painted fascia board, and the 3rd bay also has a 3-light casement; the 1st floor has 3 similar casements; the lean-to to the left has a 4- pane sash. The roof has a dormer over the 3rd bay, and at the right-hand gable the chimney rising from the stack at the original gable wall is detached from this gable but attached to that of the addition (which is higher and has no openings to the front). The right-hand return wall of this addition has a 12-pane sash on each floor and a modern porch to the rear of these. The rear has a catslide roof to the outshut of the main range, which has been raised at the east end and has a wide inserted dormer at the west end, and various modern windows. Interior: large lateral beam at junction of 1st and 2nd bays with blocked mortices of former partition; timber-framed partition at junction of 2nd bays; large inglenook fireplace with timber bressummer at former west gable wall; under staircase in this room, a muntin-and-rail door with H-hinges; wallposts and tie-beams exposed at 1st floor. History: following occupation by Arthur family from late C17, was bakery house in C19; was known as "Ordnance Cottage" from c.1870 to c.1920 (reference: Proc. LDLHS VoL5, No.1, 1987).

Listing NGR: TQ1798457701