Tudor Cottage

ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE

9/167 Tudor Cottage (formerly listed as Tudor House)

17.4.59

GV II

Cottage. Early C17, largely rebuilt by William Pinney in C19. Local lias stone cut and roughly squared, with Ham stone dressings; clay pantiled roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 2 bays south elevation. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with labels; 4 light to ground floor, 3 light to first and 2-light to the gabled attic dormer windows; rectangular leaded panes with some iron opening casements; cambered arched doorway between bays with timber and tile porch; part string course at first floor cill level; above each dormer window small plaques with initials 'WP' in gothic script. West side elevation may be less rebuilt, with cill string course to first floor; to ground floor a pair 2-light mullioned windows, the left with hood mould; centrally to first floor an oriel window of 1+3+1 light wave and hollow chamfer moulded windows having simple stepped corbell under and stone slate hipped roof; in gable a plain 2-light chamfered window with label and plaque over. Interior not seen, but reported are ceiling beams with scroll stops; spiral stone at rear, partly renewed; moulded 4 centre arched fireplace, and plain partition. William Pinney owned Somerton Randle (qv) and did much building work in the late C19. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4907828537