Elm Tree Cottage

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ST 92 NE SUTTON MANDEVILLE PA NTERS ROAD (east side)

3/150 Elm Tree Cottage

• II

House. C15 or early C16, altered late C16/early C17, C19 and C20. Rubblestone with large quoins and padstones to crucks which are incorporated; heightened in 2 stages in rubblestone (on left) and brick (on right). Thatched roof. Original single-storey 4-bay open hall; floor inserted and range heightened in two phases to give 2-storey facade; single-storey added bay on right. Large 1989 porch addition. Entrance elevation: windows are 1989 small-pane wooden casements. 1989 brieze-block porch addition has door, window, and half-hipped plain tile roof, there is a 1-light window to its right and on its left a partially-masked former doorway and a padstone; a small window to far left. 3 windows to 1st floor. Roof hipped at left end, half-hipped at right end, with broad, brick, cross-ridge stack to left of centre. Rear: on right an early C20 brick outbuilding under catslide roof. Various windows, mostly C20, but one late C16/C17 2-light chamfered mullion window with leaded iron casement (the window possibly re-used as stone members are ill-fitting). Left return: on left a quoined doorway with C20 6-panel door (4 panels glazed) and bracketed corrugated-iron hood, a 3-light window to right and one of 2 lights above. Interior: on ground floor 2nd bay from left has spine-beam with deep chamfer and lambs tongue stops; old joists. On 1st floor old floor- boards and, between right-hand bays, plank and muntin panelling with some scratch moulding. Two cruck frames survive, visible mostly on the 1st floor; that at right terminates at wall plate; that at centre is full-height support- ing square-section diagonally-set ridge-piece. Deep diagonally-laid through purlins. Old plank-like rafters, in one section supporting wattle super- structure. Roof timbers are smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: ST9868229155