Petts Cottage Armond House and house immediately to North East (EHER 34363)

A complex group originally comprising one 18th century house and one 15th century house, combined and redivided to form three houses. They are timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. All facing NW.

Listed building description A complex group originally comprising one 18th century house and one 15th century house, combined and redivided to form three houses. They are timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. All facing NW. The 18th century house, at the left, now comprises the NE part of Armond House and the house to NE of it; it has an axial stack, almost central, a lean-to garage to the left, and a lean-to extension to the rear, and is of two storeys with attics. It was a gambrel roof with elaborately moulded eaves cornice in the Gothic style. The 15th century house to SW of it comprises the SW part of Armond House and Pett's Cottage to the SW; it has a two-bay hall with an early 17th century stack in the left bay, an originally storeyed service bay to the left and an originally storeyed parlour/solar bay to the right. There are rear extensions. It is storeys. At the left end the door to Armond House is of 6 panels, the upper 4 glazed; the door to Pett's Cottage is of plain boarded type. At the time of survey, September 1985, Armond House was undergoing major renovation; a trellised gabled porch was demolished, and a timber-framed false front with parapet was being replaced in breeze block. The ground floor of Pett's Cottage is weatherboarded. The 15th century house has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces trenched to the outside, some panels of original stick wattle and daub, and edge-halved and bridled scarfs in both wall plates. In the service end plain joists of horizontal section are arranged longitudinally. The inserted floor in the hall has a deeply chamfered transverse beam. The inserted stack is much mutilated. Diamond mortices and shutter grooves for unglazed windows. Crownpost roof, heavily smoke-blackened over the hall; the central crownpost is of octagonal section with a square base and a moulded square cap, and four-way arched braces, complete. Shown as three dwellings in the tithe award of 1841. <1> <2>