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TQ59SE DARK LANE, Great Warley 723-1/8/136 (West side) 20/02/76 Nos.4 AND 5 Boyles Court Cottages (Formerly Listed as: DARK LANE, Great Warley Nos.4 AND 5 Boyles Cottages)

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Pair of cottages. Mid-C16 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered and colourwashed with weatherboard below sills, peg-tiled roof. Long rectangular plan with 2 lean-to rear additions and C20 rebuilding of N end in form of 2 storey cross-wing in red brick. Stacks at each gable end and larger stack in red brick off central towards N end, set to rear of roof apex. Cottages parallel to the road at right-angles to Nos 2 & 3 (qv). EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Front, E elevation, all windows C20, 2-light casements with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, N-S, No.4, 2 windows, boarded door with simple lean-to peg-tiled porch on posts, door-frame has moulded architrave, gabled dormer window above with 2-light casement with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, shared stack. No.5, 2 windows with dormer window above as No.4, door as No.4, window. Rear, W elevation irregular, principal range, S-N, No.5, S addition, wholly C20, brick with flat roof, central door with glazed panel and adjacent 2-light casement window, original house wall with C20 2-light casement with glazing bars, 4x2 panes, above, dormer window with C20 2-light casement window 4x3 panes, principal stack, C19 out-shut (shed now for No.5) with stack in yellow brick, corrugated asbestos cement roof with C20 single light casement window with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. C20 rebuilt end as cross-wing with one ground and one first-floor window, both 2-light casements with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. S end elevation, stack totally rebuilt in C20, ground floor C20 tall slit fixed window and top opening casement window in C20 rear addition. C20 gable attic window of 2 lights with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. N end elevation, old house weatherboarded, stack rebuilt, ground floor, 2 casement windows, top opening, with glazing bars, 2x3 panes. C20 brick rendered rear addition, plain door with glazed panel and 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Gable attic window, C20 2-light, glazing bars, 2x3 panes. INTERIOR: heavy studding in both cottages with jowled post to tie-beam at chimney partition. House exterior seen in old rear out-shut has external arched brace with elegant curve from central post to wall plate. Roof of side purlin type with arched wind braces. 3 cells of 4 bays, central 2 bay hall with deep section joists with run-out chamfered edges, carpenters' marks on ceiling joists and frame members. Doorway and stair position probably original at rear of hall to S end room. Very wide timber lintel to central fireplace facing No.5, with remains of arched decoration. Floor framing in 2 uneven sections. Size of fireplace, an upper stud over the central tie-beam in No.4 and an elegant, curved, carefully chamfered collar, slightly sooted, next to the stack in No.5 suggest the existence of a timber hood before the present brick stack. If so, the hall floor is probably inserted with the stack and slight sooting of the roof is caused by the billowing of smoke from the edges of the hood, set within the small open hall. Gable attic windows in original position over tie-beams providing lighting for end storeyed bays. The house demonstrates the changes taking place in the mid-C16, between the medieval open hall and the fully 2-storey house with heated rooms of the C17. Nos 2 & 3 (qv), 4 & 5 Dark Lane form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5825891284

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