Building record 931/0/13 - Thinkell Cottage

{1} House. Early to mid C17 with later alterations. Squared, coursed lias with some dressed stone details, thatched roof. Stone coped south (L.H.) gable with moulded kneelers. Two brick gable end stacks. Single storey and attic. Three gabled dormers to front: a large central dormer with a brick ridge stack and a smaller dormer to either side, all with applied timber framing in the gables, and said to have been added in 1902. A stone gabled dormer and an eyebrow dormer at rear. The eaves level is raised and front and rear walls heightened by several courses. Three unit plan with entry at left of right hand unit. Evidence of a second doorway into left hand unit. Irregular two and three-light timber
casements with leadlights, all under concrete lintols replacing timber except for a two-light stone mullioned casement with ovolo moulded frame to left in the central bay. A similar stone mullioned window to each floor of the south gable end wall, now blocked. A single light stone framed inglenook window at north end of front. Irregular one or two light wood framed casements at rear under timber lintols. Internally on ground floor chamfered bridging beams with moulded stops in all rooms. Inglenook fireplace with timber bressummer and bread oven in north room, stone framed fireplace with moulded jambs and arch in south room, salt cupboard to right. South attic room has chamfered principal rafters and collar tie as exposed truss members and chamfered purlin with straight wind braces, indicating that the room was the principal upper chamber. Roof framing exposed in other attic rooms. Brick single storey extensions at north and south ends of house not of special interest. The house is said to have contained two or three cottages, but probably a single dwelling in C17.

<1> English Heritage, 2000, Listed Buildings Online, 23/1 (checked) (Database). SNN105526.

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Mar 4 2011 3:52PM