Manor Cottages

SY 09 SW ROCKBEARE RAG LANE

3/120 No 3 Manor Cottages -

• II

Cottage. Mid-late C17 with C20 service extension. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, corrugated iron to service outshot. 2-room plan cottage facing east away from the road with central through-passage. The right (northern) room has an outer front corner stack and the left room has a projecting end stack. To rear the central section is thrown forward a little and there is a C20 service outshot to rear of the left room. Main cottage is 2 storeys. Irregular frontage has 3 ground floor and 1 first floor windows being a variety of late C19 and C20 casements and fixed pane windows with glazing bars and C20 door to passage. The eaves are deep particularly so on the left side. Roof is half-hipped to right and gable-ended to left. The left end wall is propped by 2 large probably C20 buttresses. Interior: shows mostly the result of C20 modernisation which nevertheless seems mostly superficial. The left room has a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beam and the right room has a plain soffit-chamfered crossbeam; both C17. The fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. The roof is inaccessible although the feet of the truss principals show and suggest that the C17 roof survives intact.

Listing NGR: SY0324493840