Poultry Farm Cottage Weavers Cottage

BIDDESTONE SLAUGHTERFORD ST 87 SW 4/74 Weavers Cottage and Poultry Farm Cottage 20.12.60 (formerly listed as Manor House Poultry Farm)

GV II

House, now 3 cottages, C16, 1620 and C18. Rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. 'L'-plan, the original range facing south, extended to west 1620 and north east rear wing added in C18. 2 storeys and attic. South front: coped east end gable with saddlestone, 2 ridge stacks, one rebuilt and rebuilt west end wall stack. Front, from right, 5-window range, 2-light chamfered mullion window and C20 door and window below with two 2-light ovolo-mullion windows with hoods above, then renewed 12-pane sash with modern dormer gable above, then principal door in cyma-moulded surround with stone slab enclosed porch, and at left end, C20 French window with 3-light ovolo-mullion window and hood in stone gable. East end gable has 2-light Tudor arched mullion window, possibly reset. North side: full height 6-light window in 3 tiers of 2-light ovolo-mullioned windows, centre pair blocked, apparently a hall light, but made of reused pieces. To right, 2-light window over C20 window, then gable with 2-light ovolo-mullion windows with hoods to each floor and at right end, single light stone ground floor window. Rear wing: Attached to north east corner of original range with coped south gable and saddlestone and north end wall brick stack. Cyma-moulded mullion windows with hoods, 3- light to ground and first floor of east side, 2-light to south end attic. Very small single light first floor window to west side. Interior: The main range is apparently a 2-bay cruck framed open hall house with raised cruck trusses, the bases only visible and central truss concealed apart from collar. Inserted floor with broad chamfer and stop to beams. Unheated east end has heavy floor joists. One moulded upright post visible on west side of present party wall. West end passage and large room with ovolo- moulded wall beams and spine beam. Inglenook fireplace with timber lintel carried right across, over small doorway to right of fireplace. Inscribed date 1620.

Listing NGR: ST8385673996