Description

DRINKSTONE DRINKSTONE GREEN, CROSS TL 96 SE STREET 1/2 - Nos. 1 and 2, Stott - Cottages II Two houses, built as one house, in 2 stages in C16. 2 storeys. 3-cell cross- entry plan. Timber-framed and plastered. Cedar shingled roof, formerly thatched. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20 red brick. small- pane late C19/early C20 casements. Each house has a mid C20 half-glazed entrance door, and that to right occupies the probable cross-entry position. Interior: The parlour block to left was added in late C16 to an earlier building with a lower roofline (the roof was raised in C20). Plain framing at both phases, but the parlour block has leaf-carved chamfer stops to a main beam and to rear is a contemporary outshut designed to contain a staircase. This contains 4 doorways with 4-centred arched heads, of which 3 have leaf- carved spandrels and 2 have a cross carved over the head. (Compare: Abbots Lodge, Drinkstone - Item No. 1/26). An Old Cottage Saved: A.R. Powys: S.P.A.B., c.1900.

Listing NGR: TL9646960277

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