The Cottage Tudor Stores Brittannia Cottage And Adjoining House To South

SO 8103 KING'S STANLEY HIGH STREET (east side)

13/15 The Cottage, Tudor Stores, Britannia Cottage and adjoining house to south

GV II

Row of 4 houses, including shop. C15, late C16, C17 and early C19. Timber framing, squared and dressed limestone and coursed rubble limestone. Chimneys mostly rebuilt in brick; stone slate and plain tile roofs. Two-storey with attic to The Cottage and Tudor Stores; 2-storey rear wing to The Cottage. Two-storey house with cross wing (Britannia Cottage); 2-storey house at south end with attic to cross wing. Front: small square framing with close studding to The Cottage and Tudor Stores; projecting gabled bay- window above C20 shop front of Tudor Stores. Scattered C19 and C20 casement fenestration. Projecting gable end of Britannia Cottage to right with single-window casement fenestration; doorway to left with 6-panel door. Weatherboarded gablet at change in roof height to Britannia Cottage. To right range is faced in C19 coursed rubble, with round-arched doorway and very small circular fixed light above. Cottage adjoining to right continues the coursed rubble and C19 fenestration including hipped-roofed porch and bay window. Projecting gable end of south cross wing has C20 casements, segmental-arched to attic. North end: timber framed gable end of main range to right, jettied at attic and formerly at upper floor level with moulded bressumers. Ground floor rebuilt in rubble limestone with casement having timber lintel. Small framed upper floor; close studded attic, each with single casement. Lean-to addition to left. Rear: The Cottage has parapet-gabled rear wing in very large dressed limestone, possibly C15; later fenestration, blocked attic opening with splayed sides appears original. C17 lateral chimney stack to south side of wing. Various lean-to additions to Tudor Stores, Britannia Cottage and adjoining house. Early rubble masonry to rear of main range. Interior of The Cottage has complete timber framing including 4- centred arched doorways. Britannia Cottage has remains of 5 cruck trusses, one complete blade surviving. Some early painted decoration survives on timberwork. House at south end is largely early C19 rebuilding but may have some earlier structure. (N.W. Alcock, Cruck Construction: An Introduction and Catalogue, 1981; and N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242-257)

Listing NGR: SO8116703450