The Cottage

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In the entry for:

ASTON TIRROLD ASTON STREET SU5585 (east side) 9/10 The Cottage GV II

The grade and the description shall be amended to read:

SU 5585 ASTON TIRROLD ASTON STREET (east side) 1060- /9/10 The Cottage

GV II*

House. 1286 (west wing) and perhaps 1508 (east wing), with major additions 1620 (north wing). Restored 1956 and 1991-2. Timber frame, with water reed thatch (1991). West wing is of two bays with hipped end, north wing of one cell with single cell east wing in angle between the other two wings. Large stack in southern bay of north wing. One storey west wing (formerly two), two storeys to the rest. West wing is of box frame construction on a sole plate (entirely replaced 1992). Much original wattle-and-daub infills, some replaced 1992, all like the frame now limewashed. Bays are defined by full-height posts which support wallplates and tie beams in normal assembly, though only the outer two ties are original. Post feet, storey girts and studs repaired and in placed replaced. Posts are braced to wall-plates and ties, but these braces are visible externally only at the west end. Here they are crossed near the top of the facade by an applied but original chamfered and stopped sill piece, forming the plinth for a four-light window reconstructed 1992. This has octagonal mullions with carved bases and caps, similar responds, and a cusped arched headboard fitted against the mullions and into rebates in the jambs. The headboard is carved "1286", "J" and "B" (for Joan and Bryan Bateman, owners). The south face of this wing has a small diamond-mullion window of 4 lights tucked under the western brace and two C20 casements. The north face has a C20 casement and a small ventilator of 1286, a pierced board in pointed quatrefoil form, the opening defined by a chamfer, quick and scribed circle. A ham-hung shutter survives behind. West wing interior is now a single space. Open staircase occupies the original position at east end. Timbers are fully visible including dragon ties, possible truncated passing braces to central truss and wallplate jointed on north side by a tabled scarf with undersquinted abutments. A similar scarf on the south has this detail on the top side only. Open roof is 1992 queen strut and wind braced, reinstatement of C16 pattern which survived until 1956, designed by Daniel Miles. The north wing is of heavy framing, painted black, with arched braces to wallplate. One window per storey, C20 casements. C20 plank door in early chamfered frame close to junction with west wing and therefore opposite the axial stack. Gable end has casements above tie, otherwise obscured by C20 flat-roofed brick addition of one storey running to C20 garage with pitched tiled roof Garden side shows different builds with adjacent posts, and storey girt only to north wing. Three C20 fixed windows, and glazed door to east wing. North wing inside has wide plank door to kitchen, and very elaborately moulded bressummer to large fireplace; heavy joists. Roof over this portion a modern replacement after fire in 1956. East wing inside has large brick fireplace with herringbone back, inserted floor dated 1620 on eastern ledge with evidence for a smoke hood showing in its north eastern portion. Beam with ovolo chamfer and double jewel stops, heavily carved bracket, zigzag and gouging on ledges. Old brick and tile floor. Roof over this portion replaced after fire in 1956. History: The west wing has been dated by dendrochronology to 1286. It is likely that it then formed the Solar wing to a small house of which the hall adjoined at the north east corner, on the site of the present north wing. The house probably belonged to a half-yardlander. The sole plate of the west wing has been dated to 1508 and this may also be the date of the east wing. In 1620 this single storey block was floored and perhaps at the same time the north wing constructed, re-using an earlier fireplace bressummer. It has since been shortened by at least one bay. The C13 wing is one of the very few domestic timber-framed buildings of this date to have been discovered in which aisled construction is not used. Its constructional, and especially decorative, details are of the highest importance. C R J Currie in Oxoniensia (1992), pp 103-7.

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ASTON TIRROLD ASTON STREET SU5585 (East side) 9/10 The Cottage GV II

Cottage. C17. Large timber framing with rendered infill; recent wood shingle roof; central brick ridge stack. 2-storey, single-window range. Plank door to right. 2-light casement to left. 2-light casement to first floor centre. Interior not inspected. Timber framed cross-wing with rendered infill and shingled hipped roof, probably former barn, to right.

Listing NGR: SU5564785785

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Sources

Books and journals
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, (1992), 103-7

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