Description

CROPTON HIGH STREET SE 7488-7588 14/22 No 2 The Green GV II - Formerly known as Morley's Cottage. Cross-passage and domestic end of longhouse; now cottage. Probably early C17, raised later; C20 alteration and extension. Cruck-framed, encased in coursed rubble stone with pantile roof and rebuilt stacks. 2 storeys, 2 irregular bays, the right obscured by separate building projecting forwards; and left half-bay with entrance passage. Quoined doorway with renewed lintel and C20 door at left. 2-light casement with painted timber lintel in enlarged fire window, to right. Further right a 3-light chamfered-mullion window. First-floor window is a 2-light, horizontal-sliding sash with diamond leaded lights. Stack to right of door. Rear: original cross-passage door now blocked by C20 window. In the centre is a square chamfered window marked "DAIRY". Interior: C18 plank and batten door leads from cross-passage into house. Backing on to cross- passage is late C18 stone fireplace with a segmental arch cut in low relief from a corbelled-out monolith lintel. Joists throughout ground floor are chamfered and stopped, and laid flat. In the left room the spine beam is chamfered.

Listing NGR: SE7568088978

External Links

• Wikidata Q26499308

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