Description

TL 71 NW FAIRSTEAD RANK'S GREEN
(north side)

1/22 Tudor Cottage

- II

House. C14/C15, altered in C16 and C17. Timber framed, plastered with studding
exposed, weatherboarded dado, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing S with late C16
axial stack at left end, and C17 extension beyond. Parlour/solar bay to right,
with C17/C18 external stack at end, and lean-to extension beyond. One storey
with attics. 4 C20 casements, and 2 more in eyebrow dormers. C20 half-glazed
door. Jowled posts, heavy studding, some curved external bracing at rear. The
hall has a blocked unglazed window with 4 diamond mullions in the rear wall,
central tiebeam removed, a large wood-burning hearth of 0.33 m brickwork on one
side, 0.23 m on the other, and an inserted floor comprising a chamfered
transverse beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section,
supported on a pegged clamp on the right partition wall, terminating short of
the stack at left and extended to reach it, implying the former presence of a
larger timber framed chimney. Longitudinal plain joists of square section in
parlour/solar (right) bay. Crownpost roof, crownpost and collar-purlin
missing. The left extension has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue
stops, plain joists of vertical section and a clasped purlin roof. Rebated
floorboards. RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL7483617996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416554

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