Rondle Cottage

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MILLAND RONDLE WOOD SU 82 NW 5/30 Rondle Cottage

• II

House. Probably early C16; altered late C16-early C17, 1936 and late C20. Timber-framed with sandstone rubble infill, painted at front, and some brick; on brick and sandstone rubble plinth. Plain tile roof. Brick stacks. Hallhouse with central bay open; chimney, floor and stairs inserted late C16-early C17. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 1936 leaded metal casement windows in wood frames throughout. Frame has small rectangular panels and arched braces on first floor of end bays. Entrance front: 1936 moulded board door to central bay. Various windows including ones in spandrels formed by braces. Hipped roof with gablets (originally thatched, as shown in old photograph). Ridge stack to right of centre, rebuilt late C20; C19 stack to rear left. Rear: C20 door to left bay; a long window on each floor of central bay, and various others. Left return: wall posts are markedly jowelled; small board door to left of centre. Interior: rubblestone fireplace with chamfered timber lintel in central room; steep old stair rises behind it. Old joists, in left-hand room chamfered and with lambs tongue stops, and similarly treated spine-beam in central room. On first floor the partition wall between left-hand rooms has long straight braces. Queen-post roof trusses on cambered tie-beams; upper part of roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU8199325427