Description

MERTON
SS 51 SW
11/142 Nos. 1 and 2, Hatiches
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II

Pair of cottages originally probably one house. Circa early - mid C17 possibly
extended in C19. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Thatch roof, hipped to left end
and gabled to right. Projecting plastered rubble stack at right gable end with brick
shaft and brick axial stack.
Plan: Presently a pair of cottages - the left-hand one consisting of 2 rooms and No.
2 to the right of one room with the addition of C20 wing to the rear. It seems
likely to have been one house originally, of 2 room plan with hall to the left whose
axial stack may have backed onto the passage. The room to its left may either be an
unheated inner room or a C19 addition when the house was subdivided.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of early C20 casements - 2-light
on the first floor, 3 lights below. Each cottage has a C20 rustic timber open-
fronted porch one to right of centre and are towards left-hand end. Early C20 plank
doors behind each porch. Left-hand side of front is recessed. C20 wing behind
right-hand end.
Interior: of No. 1 (to left) only accessible and contained plastered ceiling beams
and part of a simple C17 moulded plaster cornice on the first floor. One C20 roof
truss is visible, the others are plastered over and may be earlier but there is not
access to the roof-space.

Listing NGR: SS5321212443

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595132

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