Description

TR 04 SE MERSHAM HINXHILL ROAD
(north side)

4/124 Gains Cottage
27.11.57

II

House. C16 or earlier, clad C16/C17. Timber framed and clad with
red brick in irregular Header and English bond, with weatherboarding
to first floor. Plain tiled roof. Possibly an aisled hall house in
origin. Two storeys on ragstone plinth with hipped roof with clustered
moulded and filleted stack to end right, and large free standing stack
to rear left with rebuilt diamond-set flues. Two wooden casements
and glazing bar sash to right on 1st floor and 2 tripartite glazing
bar sashes on ground floor. Central door of 6 raised and fielded
panels, the top 2 glazed, with segmental head. Panelled door to end
right. Weatherboarded outshot to left with boarded door on left return,
reached by flight of steps. Interior: beaded moulded and hollow
chamfered doorways, particularly at head of newel stair in outshot
(four centred arched door with fernleaf spandrels to stair head) with
stop-chamfered wall plate in same area, and boarded doors with strap
hinges. Ovolo moulded mullioned windows to rear. Moulded wainscotting
to upper corridor. Large kitchen inglenook with bake oven attached.
Exposed close-studding within entrance porch, originally external
wall of hall. All the decorative features are C16/C17 (including
the stacks) and may mask the extension of an earlier building,
especially with an outshot, but the size and nature of the internal
frame suggests this may be an adaptation of an earlier aisled hall.

Listing NGR: TR0617141184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565978

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