Charlton Cottage

Charlton Cottage is a house dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, with significant alterations and restorations carried out in the early 17th century and again around 1984. The structure is rendered over part timber-frame and brick, with some ashlar, and has a C20 slate roof, incorporating some stone slates to the rear, along with an ashlar and brick stack and saddlestones. It is two-and-a-half storeys high, featuring a 1-window range, with a shorter 2-storey section to the northwest and a further extension. The building presents as a cross-gabled Cotswold cottage. A C20 door is located on the south return. The west facade has C20 casement windows, including 3-light casements to the ground and first floors, and a single light in the attic. The south gable has 1 and 1 windows, and a 2-light flat mullion window to the first floor. A lower chimney bay extends north, featuring a large stack. The interior is reported to contain a winder stair, some exposed timber-framing and jowled post, and chamfered ceiling beams. The parlour has an early 17th-century fireplace constructed of freestone, with a double ovolo moulding and a shallow depressed 4-centred arch. Originally, it was an open-hall house with large-panel timber-framing on a low stone wall, incorporating a cross-wing to the east. In the 17th century, the house was substantially altered, the roof line raised, an open hearth replaced with a stone chimney stack and a back-to-back fireplace, and a winder stair inserted. A stone-mullioned window on the southeast wall was once concealed under plasterwork. The property was known as Joyce’s in 1800.