Description

TL 41 SE MATCHING HOBBS CROSS 2/43 Mead Cottage II

Group of 3 cottages, C17 and C19, now one house. Timber framed, plastered with zigzag combed designs in panels, roof thatched. 2-bay cottage aligned NE-SW with chimney stack at SW end, mid-C17. Extension to SE with central chimney stack to form 2 additional cottages, early C19. C20 extension at SW end of original cottage. C17 cottage of one storey with attics, C19 cottages of 2 storeys. NE elevation, plain door and 3 casement windows on ground floor, 3 more above, all C20. Half hipped at SE, hipped at NW. Framing partly exposed internally. In original cottage, jowled posts, straight rising braces from corner posts to wallplates and tiebeams, interrupted studs. Original doorway of framed and pegged construction through central tiebeam. Unchamfered joists of vertical section arranged axially. Inserted square dormer in N.W. side of SW bay, C20, replacing an earlier, smaller dormer. In later cottages, lighter framing, primary straight bracing, posts unjowled.

Listing NGR: TL4924110343

External Links

• Wikidata Q26459740

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