Base Lane Cottage

SO 82 SW SANDHURST 5/115 Base Lane Cottage

10.1.55

II

Detached cottage. C15 or ea-rlier and C18. Irregular square- panelled timber-framing with curved bracing, painted brick and wattle and daub infill. Thatched roof with decorative ridge, brick stack. Rectangular main body. 1½ storeys. Upper floor lit by 2 eyebrow dormers with 2 and 3-light casement windows. Plank door far right, another left, flanked by 2-light casements. Stack projects from wall left, 2-light casement with horizontal glazing bars in segmental-headed surround, two plank doors left. Left, gable-end faced in brick; C18 two-light casement with horizontal glazing bars lower left, similar 2-light casement to first floor, oval light towards apex. Timber-framing visible in rear wall, early 3-light window with roughly hewn square wood-mullions far right, rear wall otherwise lit by 1,2 and 3-light casements mostly with horizontal glazing bars. Far left-hand window retains one light with early rectangular leaded panes. Fine central C18 composite stack. Interior: possibly 6 full cruck trusses, wind bracing. Spine beam in central downstairs.room, large bread oven right of open fireplace, tie beams with ovolo-moulded stops with bars. Large half cone moulding on beam in room on far right-hand of ground floor. Rectangular flat-chamfered stone fireplace.

Listing NGR: SO8266521532