Description

GREETE

SO57SE Lower Cottage
582-1/4/113
15/03/74

II

House. Late C15 core with C17 main range and C20 alterations.
Painted timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill,
brick and stone rubble. Plain-tile roof. Projecting stone
stack with brick stepped upper stages and stone bread oven to
side. L-shaped plan of 3 framed-bay main range and 2
framed-bay cross wing.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey and single-storey with attic. Windows
generally C20 casements with leaded lights. West front of main
range has square framing 2 panels high with 3 C20 casements.
Underbuilt frame at ground floor with C20 brick and with
windows flanking tiled enclosed porch.
Left (north) return side: main range gable of square framing 4
panels high on brick plinth with tension brace, covered by
brick stack in centre, with end-truss of straight tie beam,
collar and vertical struts. Cross wing to left with square
framing 3 panels high on stone rubble plinth with swept
tension brace. 3 inserted windows and entrance door with tiled
gabled porch. 2 C19 dormers.
East gable of cross wing: cruck frame at first floor
underbuilt with C19 brick; cruck blades truncated above upper
collar, twin restored struts to lower collar framing a 2-light
window, 3 studs to tie beam, all horizontal members lapped and
notch jointed to cruck blades.
East wall of main range: square framing 4 panels high
underbuilt in brick to south bay only, covered by cross wing
to right.
South sides of both wings rebuilt in C20 brickwork.
INTERIOR: single trenched-purlin roof. Deep chamfered cross
bridging beams to south bay of main range. Double bridging
beams to north bay and to cruck-framed bays.

Listing NGR: SO5706270738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663417

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)