Bell Cottage

TILSHEAD HIGH STREET SU 04 NW (south side) 1/281 Bell Cottage II Detached cottage. C16 with Cl7 remodelling. Plastered brick, thatched roof with axial brick stack. Cl7 baffle-entry, formerly open to roof with no chimney in C16. Single-storey and attic, 2 windows. Narrow planked door to right of centre, to right is C19 canted bay window and to left is one 3-light casement. Attic has one eyebrow dormer with 2-light casement. Right return has 2-light casement to attic. Rear has C20 French windows and two eyebrow dormers to attic, one with 2-light casement and one to right with two 2-light casements, attached to right is single-storey C19 brick extension with segmental-headed casements and corrugated-iron roof. Interior has Cl7 inserted first floor with chamfered beams with bar stops, central stack with blocked open fireplaces. Timber-framed partition between left and centre bays. RCHM recorded 3-bay C16 roof with smoke-blacked timbers; two tiers of through purlins with curved wind-bracing to upper tier. An important survival of the open-plan cottage with Cl7remodelling on Salisbury Plain. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU0341447919