Cherry Tree Cottage (EHER 34375)

A 16th century or earlier house, altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and roofed with handmade red clay tiles.

Listed building description A 16th century or earlier house, altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and roofed with handmade red clay tiles. It is made of 2-3 bays facing SE, with axial stack at right end. It has a 20th century flat-roofed extension to right, extending to the rear. It is one storey with attics. The left bay has an original floor of longitudinal joists of horizontal section, with a trimmed stair trap in the north corner. There are large peg-holes in the studded partition indicate the former presence of a fixed bench on the hall side of it. The hall has a late 16th century inserted floor comprising a chamfered transverse beam with step stops, a chamfered axial beam, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, supported at their outer ends on pegged clamps. It has a large wood-burning hearth, altered around 1983. The tiebeam of the partition is severed for a framed doorway, indicating that originally the hall was open from ground to roof. The present brick stack probably replaces an earlier timber-framed chimney, and perhaps a still earlier open hearth. The roof structure is not accessible. It was renovated around 1983 without major alteration to structure. <1> <2>