Parsonage Cottage

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE GREEN LANE, Hucclecote 844-1/4/456 (West side) 12/03/73 No.4 Parsonage Cottage (Formerly Listed as: GREEN LANE, Hucclecote Parsonage Cottage)

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Cottage. Probably mid/late C16, in early C17 extended and divided into 2 dwellings, in 1890 altered and converted to one dwelling, C20 alterations. Timber box frame with large panels infilled with brick painted white; plain tile roof half-hipped at left end and gabled at right end; a central, axial, stone stack with a pair of later brick shafts, the crease moulding on the stack suggests roof originally thatched, a C19 brick stack added against right hand gable-end wall. PLAN: a lateral range of three rooms of which the right hand and central rooms are the original house; both rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack which was possibly inserted into a central smoke bay; to front of stack a lobby with blocked doorway onto street; right-hand end room added in C17 originally unheated, later converted to kitchen with added fireplace; at rear a straight flight staircase. EXTERIOR: single storey and attic; asymmetrical front, to left of centre the blocked original entrance doorway with segmental-arched head; in centre a later doorway with vertical plank door; to left of doorways a single casement and to right of doorways two double casements, all with glazing bars and C20 renewals of originals; at left hand end of range an early C20 canted bay window and in the half-gable above a C20 metal casement; at right hand end a small projecting brick stack; at rear a gabled dormer, C20 brick porch and C20 casements. INTERIOR: in left hand room later exposed joists and a large stone fireplace with the lintel removed; in the central room a chamfered bridging beam with straight cut stops, broad chamfered joists with diagonal stops and an ashlar fireplace with chamfered jambs and lintel with circles incised on the face of the lintel, the right-hand wall has a deeply chamfered rail and a jowelled post at rear; the small right-hand room has rough exposed joists and is partitioned at rear for staircase and bathroom; in the roof very large purlins; the principal rafter in the putative smoke-bay was cut short when the stack was inserted and appears smoke-blackened. An early example of the lobby-entrance plan for this area.

Listing NGR: SO8736617264