Pyms

SX 99 NE HUXHAM

4/141 Pyms - II -

Pair of Cottages now one Cottage. Late C17 or early C18. Cob, stone plinth, rendered under hipped wheat reed thatched roof. Original cottages one-room deep. with 2 rear lateral stacks now enclosed within C20 outbuild. Stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 4 window range C20; three 2 and 1 single-light windows above, the 2-light windows under eyebrow eaves, all 6 panes per light; one 2-light window below to either side of slightly off-centre open, timber, slate-roofed porch. C18 door, planked, with inserted upper glazed panels. One 2-light window to each floor of right-hand end of original building; the upper one C19 under eyebrow eaves. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms with central passage; right-hand room with 3 cross beams, chamfered; one large chamfered beam to left- hand room. Both rooms retain C18 planked doors and the C18 winder stairs to upper rooms, that in the left-hand room to the front, in the right-hand room to the rear; treads and risers all contemporary. The original plan form survives at first floor level with no access between former cottages. Roof space ceiled; straight principals and purlins visible in upstairs rooms.

Listing NGR: SX9451396661