Cob Cottage (EHER 37316)

17th century timber-framed house.

Cottage of the 17th century, with a 20th century rear extension. It is timber-framed, plastered, with the roof thatched. The house is two bays, with a 19th century external chimney stack at the north-east gable. It is single storey with attics. There are jowled storey posts, cambered central tiebeam severed for a door, axial ceiling beams, that in the south-west bay are stop-chamfered, the other plastered over. Partition between ground floor rooms stripped to expose framing. Photograph, ref. 137/3-3, shows that this cottage has been little altered externally since the 1930s despite recent renovation. Then it had a weatherboarded dado on the front elevation; now gone and the south-west ground floor window was of two lights, now three. The door was then plain. No other significant change. Listed Grade III in April 1952 under the present name. <1> See: <2>