Wantz Cottage (EHER 37310)

Late 17th century lobby entry house.

Lobby-entrance house of the late 17th century, and altered in the 19th century, and extended in the 20th century. It its timber-framed, plastered, with the roof mainly thatched, and partly tiled. The house is three bays aligned north-east to south-west, with original chimney stack of one hearth at the north-east end of middle bay, forming a lobby-entrance. Another original chimney stack is at the rear of the south-west bay. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Some timber framing is exposed internally, with primary straight bracing, straight tiebeams, unjowled posts, and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. A blocked aperture for former bread oven was in the rear of the south-west hearth, now demolished. The house was divided into two cottages in the 19th century. An old photograph shows it in this form, with an additional dormer to south-west of the present one. It was recombined into one house, about 1950, the extra dormer removed, and a new stair constructed. <1>