Hennock Lake's Cottage and Old Slade Cottage

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SX 8380 HENNOCK CHURCH ROAD (east side), Hennock Lake's Cottage 10/130 (formerly listed as Lakes Farmhouse) - and Old Slade Cottage 23.8.55 GV II Pair of cottages, formerly a farmhouse. C16 or possibly earlier; later additions to right and at rear. Parts of the building have been rebuilt after a fire in C20. Rendered, solid walls. Asbestos-slated roofs, previously thatched. On ridge, off- centre to right, a granite ashlar chimneystack (heating former hall) with thatch weatherings and tapered crenellated top. In front wall, off-centre to left, a projecting chimneystack (probably heating the former parlour) with offsets and a later rendered brick shaft. Another rendered stack, probably C19, stands on the ridge in left-hand gable. Basically a 3-room and through-passage plan, probably extended at left-hand end. 2 storeys, with single-storeyed garage block to right. 5-window front. In second bay from the right is a 2-storeyed entrance-porch, probably timber-framed. The ground storey is open, supported at the front by 2 C20 wooden posts. Front door at rear of porch is C20, but set in a late C16 or early Cl7 chamfered wood frame with hollow outer moulding; straight-headed except for a small cranked arch in the centre. Upper storey has a 3-light wood casement window with 3 panes per light : C20 imitation timber-framed gable, formerly hipped. In left-hand bay of ground storey a C20 door (serving Old Slade Cottage) with a single- storey gabled porch of similar date. To left of the 2-storeyed entrance porch in ground storey is a 4-pane wood casement window; to left of that again are 2 further wood casement windows of different sizes, each of 2 lights with 3 panes per light. To right of porch is a similar 3-light window, but with a single sheet of glass and top-hung ventilator in centre light. In the second storey the 3 windows to the left of the porch have 2-light wood casements, each light with 3 panes. To right of porch is a C20 3-light wood casement window with transom window in centre light. In front of the cottages is a garden surrounded by a low roughcast stone wall with a good simple iron gate at the southern end; the garden path of Lake's Cottage, together with the area under and to the right of the porch, has a surface of large granite cobbles. The garden wall, gate and cobbled surface are included in the listing. Interior: hall, passage and lower room are comprised in Lake's Cottage (to right). Hall has chamfered centre beam and 2 half-beams with step-stops; joists also chamfered with step-stops. Fireplace, which backs on to through-passage, has wood lintel with multiple mouldings, possibly of mid C16. Owner says there is a newel stair, now blocked in, between the stack and the front wall. At upper end of hall is a complete stud-and-panel screen with chamfered studs having diagonal-cut stops; believed by owner to have been moved from lower side of through-passage. In second storey the lower parts of 2 side pegged jointed cruck trusses are exposed, the upper sides of the purlins chamfered with run out stops. Apex of roof not inspected. None of the interior of Old Slade Cottage (the parlour end) was inspected, except for the right-hand ground storey room (seen through window), which has a chamfered beam and exposed joists. The reverse of the hall screen, already described, is concealed by plastered concrete blocks. Source: 2 photographs in National Monuments Record.

Listing NGR: SX8305980896

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