Description

TQ 92 SW PLAYDEN HOUGHTON GREEN LANE
(south-west side, off)
16/79
Ship Cottage

II

House, mid-C16 with late C17/early C18, C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber
frame with plastered wattle and daub infill, C19 weatherboard cladding and
plain tile roof; rear outshut of brick and weatherboard, partly roofed in
artificial slates. 2 storeys, 2 bays with added rear outshut, part
heightened. Garden elevation: windows are C20: two large late C20 windows to
ground floor; 4 smaller lst-floor windows. Roof hipped on right. Brick end
stacks, that on left extruded. Rear: C18 outshut raised to 2 storeys on left
side, C19 under gabled roof; attached single-storey wing on left not of special
interest. Left return: a small window in chimney, one to right, both on ground
floor, and one to left on 1st floor; outshut has C20 door in C20 gabled porch
(not of special interest). Interior: timber frame has large scantling rails
and beams and jowelled wall posts; full-height timber-framed partition between
bays, in roof having lath and plaster infill; former rear wall retains one
arched tension brace and a 3-light, wood-mullioned, 1st floor window.
Left-hand room (former hall) has: inserted fireplace (late C17/early C18) with
brick jambs, chamfered timber bressummer, and bread oven with sliding board
door old brick floor; large-scantling spine-beam and cross-beam with broad
chamfers and lambs tongue stops. Old joists (in left room probably being
reused rafters) and floorboards. Roof: central collared principal rafter roof
truss, the rafters reducing in size above collar; raking queen strut, truss in
left gable; clasped purlins; old rafters; intermediate collar in left bay which
has smoke blackening at left end, but only towards rear wall. The Rape of
Hastings Architectural Survey (Report No 583) suggests that the hall was
originally heated by a smoke cavity or timber chimney, and records that the
cottage was built in 1567 (from documentary evidence).

Listing NGR: TQ9247822637

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531616

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