Description

TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD MALLOWS LANE,
North Side
3/13 Little Thatches

II

Cottage, c.1600, extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed, partly plastered,
partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, roof thatched. The original cottage
comprises 2 bays aligned NW-SE, with an external chimney stack at the SE end.
A bay was added to the SE in the C18, enclosing the stack, and in the C19 a
bay was added at the NW end, with an internal chimney tack, and the building
was divided into 2 cottages. C20 extension to NE of SE end. Aspect SW. Single
storey with attics. 2 C20 glazed doors and one boarded door, 4 C20 casement
windows. 2 eyebrow dormers, one with one C19 casement window, the other with
one C19 and one C20 casement window, one below the other. Roof hipped at NW
end. The interior of the original cottage has jowled posts, arched braces
trenched inside heavy studs, mortices for early glazed windows with grooves
for shutters, chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists
of horizontal section, clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL7271535519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603564

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)