Bowling Green Bowling Green Cottage

Bowling Green Cottage is a pair of cottages formed from the re-modelling of a former farmhouse, dating to the mid- to late 17th century. The building was modernised again around 1980 when it was subdivided. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stack topped with 19th and 20th century brick and a corrugated asbestos roof, originally thatched.

The original building had a three-room lobby entrance plan. Bowling Green Cottage occupies the western end and has a single-room plan, while Bowling Green occupies the remainder with a two-room plan. An axial stack between the centre and left-end rooms originally served back-to-back fireplaces, with the lobby entrance located at the front, now adapted to accommodate two cottage doorways. Initially, the left-end room (Bowling Green Cottage) served as a parlour, the central room was the kitchen, and the small unheated right-end room was a service room, likely a buttery or dairy.

The building is two storeys high with rear lean-to outshots, now incorporated into living areas, and a single-storey extension on the left end, added around 1980. The front façade has an irregular four-window arrangement of 19th and 20th century casement windows with glazing bars. The cottage front doorways are side-by-side, left of centre, and each has a 20th-century plank door beneath a contemporary porch. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.

During inspection, only Bowling Green Cottage was accessible. Inside, features appear to be from the mid- to late 17th century. The former kitchen’s crossbeam is chamfered with run-out stops. The fireplace has been lined with 19th-century brick, and whilst the oven is contemporary, the chamfered oak lintel is original. The partition between the two rooms is oak-framed and close-studded, incorporating a chamfered doorframe. The former dairy/buttery has a roughly-chamfered axial beam. Roof trusses are A-frame, with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.