Street End Cottage

MINSTERWORTH CHURCH LANE SO 71 NE (south side) 5/103 Street End Cottage GV II Cottage. Mid-late C17, altered C18, C19, C20. Brick-nogged timber framing, painted brickwork, oldest with irregular bond, asbestos slate roof. Four-bay, 1 1/2-storey, 1 room deep. Gable to road, back to lane: face to lane, framing spindly, 2 irregular panels high. Beam end projecting through second stud from right, straight brace third to wallplate: 3-light casement; straight brace to wallplate. To left brick bay, with small window: extended in cavity wall for narrow bay, 2-light casement with small panes. Lean-to dormer over brick section, 2-light casements, small panes. Chimney on ridge at left-end framing. Gable on right return, brick infill between main posts and principal rafters: small window ground floor, 2-light casement above. Internally, wide brick fireplace, ground floor, original stairs probably adjoining. Trusses, no tie beams, principal rafters tenoned to braces from top of wallpost down to floorbeam, one pair purlins, windbraces. Probably 2-bay cottage enlarged one bay towards road; later lean-to against gable replaced 1970's with narrow bay. Roof originally thatched. Forms group with Snowdrop Cottage (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7766516982