Cogswell

ST 97 SW 7/81

BREMHILL TYTHERTON LUCAS Cogswell

GV II

House, C16 and C17, rubble stone and timber-frame with stone slate roof, end stacks and rear stacks. Two storeys and attic, three hipped dormers, two with C18 leaded lights. Four-window front, main part timber-framed with rubble stone plinth and east end wall, the right end bay, possibly added in C17, wholly rubble stone. Late C18 sashes, 16-pane and two 12-pane sashes to first floor of main part and paired 12-pane sashes each side of door in rendered stone slated porch. Right bay has 16-pane above and paired 12-pane sashes below. Framing has heavy wall-posts and one angle brace. East end outside stack and ground floor hollow-moulded mullion window. Rear has three gabled additions behind main range, C20 flat roofed extension behind right bay and to south west a one-room plan formerly detached cottage with south stack and hipped eaves dormer to west and east sides. Link between cottage and west end of house has a reset C16 or C17 studded plank door. Three gabled additions are early C18 to east with cyma-moulded recessed 2-light mullion window to first floor east and south, the south window altered to 12-pane sash; C17 to centre with hollow-moulded mullion windows, 2-light each floor and single light to attic and late C18 to right in red brick. Interior: hall has rear wall stone chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace and east room has Tudor-arched fireplace with renewed timber lintel. Chamfered and stopped beams. Winding stair to rear with some plank panelling. Early C18 bolection fireplace in south east rear wing and another similar in first floor west room. Five- bay tie-beam and collar truss roof, the west two bays possibly added. An inventory of Thomas Cogswell of 1616 records a hall, buttery and kitchen with rooms above the hall and buttery. Owned by the Crook family in C18.

Listing NGR: ST9493174276