Inglenook (EHER 37325)

18th century timber-framed house.

Cottage of the 18th century, with a 20th century extension. It is timber-framed, plastered, with the roof thatched. The house is three bays, aligned north-east to south-west, with original brick chimney stack at the south-west end of the middle bay and the original stair is between the middle and the north-east rooms. The roof is half-hipped at the south-west end, and gabled at the north-east end. Framing exposed internally, with posts without jowls, straight tiebeams, and primary straight bracing in walls. The stub tiebeams between the middle and north-east bays are properly jointed into a strong door-frame, indicating that this has always been the access to the upper middle room. The south stair may be original too, for there is no other access to the upper south-west room. The original door is reported to have been immediately south-west of the foot of the main stair, but it is now blocked, and the present door is in the south-west bay. An unusually intact example of its type. <1> See: <2>