Manor Cottage

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DOWNTON OFF BARFORD LANE SU 1821 (west side) 6/325 Manor Cottage

GV II

Cottage. Circa mid to late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, faced in red brick, lower courses are random bond with Flemish bond above. Plain tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. End stacks with brick shafts. L-shaped on plan. 2-room plan front range, left hand wing behind the right hand room appears to be of adifferent build either later or earlier and later faced in brick. Circa early C19 outshut behind left room. One storey and attic. 2 window east front. Circa early C20 2 and 3-light casements, attic windows in small hipped dormers above eaves. Doorway to right inside C20 conservatory-porch. Large C20 raking brick buttress at centre of front. Roof at rear carried down as catslide over brick outshut. Lower rear wing with half-hipped roof. C20 metal-frame casements and hipped dormer on north side. Interior: Exposed timber-framed partition between 2 rooms in front range, the tie on jowled wall-post at back. Both rooms have thin chamfered beams with convex stops, the left axial, the right hand a cross-beam. The left room has large fireplace with chamfered timber lintel, the chamfer running into jambs, and brick-lined oven. The right hand room has simple C19 chimneypiece and winder staircase in rear corner against partition. Rear wing has large chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. Roof space ceiled.

Listing NGR: SU1805921692