Mermaid Cottage

MINSTERWORTH CHURCH LANE SO 71 NE (south side) 5/102 Mermaid Cottage II Small house. C15, altered late C16, C17, C19, C20. Brick nogged timber-framing; Flemish-bond brickwork, asbestos-slate roof. Four bays, 1 1/2 storeys, one room deep. Framing on left 2 panels high: end brick gable laps corner post, long brace to sill. To right 2- light casement; long, half-glazed porch, door on left, covering front door. Cambered timber head for blocked door to right, 2- light casement over. To right framing 3 panels high, slighter timbers. Half-glazed door; 2-light casement in rectangular oriel. Brick lean-to against right gable, boarded door. Above 3 lean-to dormers, left pair 2-light casements, right 3-light. Brick chimney on ridge, right gable: formerly lateral chimney on rear on left half. Interior: full cruck truss to left of door from porch, similar for half-hip to right. Heavily-moulded longitudinal and wall beams for inserted floor, left 2 bays (late C16); heavy chamfer to cross beam both floors right section. Two-bay cruck cottage, later floored; extended 2 narrower bays to right C17.

Listing NGR: SO7766416801