Description

BURES ST. MARY 1. 5377 TL 93 NW Cottage about 70 metres east-north-east of Corn Hall including wall and dovecote adjoining northeast. 11/936 II GV

2. Cottage, probably the wing of a larger house. Circa late C17 or early C18, remodelled as a detached cottage in circa 1830s when the main part of the house was demolished. English bond red brick with a platband on the west front and brick rubble lower parts of the north and south end walls. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial stack at centre.

Plan: 2-room plan, both rooms heated from a central axial stack with back-to- back fireplaces; the smaller left hand (north) room might have originally been unheated. There are doorways at both ends directly into the rooms, the left hand (north) room with a circa early C19 door, the right hand (south) doorway has a later C19 or C20 porch. There is a C20 outshut at the rear of the right hand room. The brick rubble in the end walls indicates that there was formerly a single storey range at the south end and a range at the north end which was almost as tall as the present cottage. Therefore it seems likely that it was once part of a larger house which has since been demolished and the putative smoke-blackened rafters resued in the roof suggests that the earlier house might have been of Medieval origin. Because the north end door is early C19 the old house was probably demolished in the 1830s when Corn Hall qv was built.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical west front with circa early C19 tripartite 4:12:4 pane sash to left of ground floor, small late C19 2-light casement to right and small C19 12-pane horizontally sliding sash on first floor to lift of centre. The left (north) end has an early C19 6-panel door to left of centre, an early C19 12-pane sash to its right and a small casement to the left. The opposite south end has small C19 casement on ground floor, C20 casement on first floor, a small loft hatch in gable and a late C19 or C20 porch to the right. At the rear a C20 single storey outshut to left, C19 horizontally sliding sash and 2-light casement with glazing bars.

Attached to the north end is a section of brick wall in Flemish bond and random rubble brickwork with a small C20 brick dovecote corbelled out over the corner and with a gable-end pantile roof.

Interior: Ceiling beams boxed in on ground floor; stopped chamfer cross-beam on first floor. C18 2-panel door on first floor and C18 4-panel door on ground floor; the others are C19 plank doors. Smaller north room has early Victorian chimneypiece and later C19 cast-iron grate.

3-bay common rafter side purlin roof without a ridgepiece, straight collars and diagonally set clasped purlins. The rafters are of large scantling and some of them and the purlins are blackened and if smoke-blackened reused from the Medieval house.

Listing NGR: TL9101535804

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