Description

MICHELMERSH RUDD LANE SU 32 NE (North side) 5/35 No 1 Glenwood Cottages (Pump Cottage) and No 2 Glenwood Cottages (Brackenwood Cottage)

II House, now 2 dwellings. C16, 2 phases, with C17 alterations; .Cl8, C19 and C20 additions and. alterations. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill, most infill replaced by brick, and brick, rendered and painted; diamond pattern asbestos cement slates to roof; brick stacks. 3 framed bays, now with baffle-entry: left bay the earliest and originally lower-roofed, the raising apparently of same period as right bays of which central, narrower, bay was probably originally a smoke bay; right bay has 1st and attic floors inserted C17; stack inserted in smoke bay C17, with smoking chamber formed at front on 1st floor probably C18; rear outshut C17, altered; bay added to left end early C20; bay added to right end and large 2-storey addition to rear right 1975. Elevation now of one storey with attic; 5 bays with added single-storey bay at left end. Central C18 door, now part-glazed; late C20 door under pent canopy at right end. 3-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, the 4 attic windows in flat-roofed dormers. Central T-plan ridge stack, of 2 builds, and one near left end. Rear: some exposed timber framing at centre. Interior: rectangular-panelled framing with straight braces and jowelled wall posts; chamfered spine-beams, in right bay with lambs tongue stops and that on ground floor supported at right end by moulded bracket, in left bay with bar and lambs tongue stops; old joists, chamfered in left bay, and floorboards (in left bay with remains of leather draught-excluding strips); queen strut and queen post roof trusses with principal rafters and clasped purlins; pegged rafters, smoke-blackened in centre bay, and somewhat in right bay. Other features of interest include: large fireplace in original left bay which has timber bressumer, former bread oven, and flue up to smoking chamber; also in this bay, old board doors to entrance lobby and on 1st floor to cupboard and smoking chamber which is lined in smoke-blackened plaster (mostly collapsed) and has rat-trap-bond brickwork; C18 fireplace in right bay with curved rear corners.

Listing NGR: SU3476025439

External Links

• Wikidata Q26386015

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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