Christie Cottage

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TEDBURN ST MARY SIX MILE HILL (south side) SX 89 SW

3/93 Christie Cottage

- II

Small house. Circa late C16 or C17 origins, late C20 fenestration and addition at left end. Whitewashed rendered cob, wheat straw thatched roof gabled at ends, projecting end stacks with brick chimney shafts. The present plan is a single-depth main range with heated rooms on either side of a central passage containing a stair, there are rounded rear projections to each room, probably formerly containing newel stairs. The late C16 plan was probably 2 or 3 rooms and a cross passage with the hall to the right, a service room at the lower end to the left and possibly an inner room adjoining the hall at the right end. There is some doubt about the position of the hall stack, the present right gable end stack appears to be an insertion, probably of the C18, cutting through a late C16/C17 half- beam against the right gable end wall, the hall may originally have been heated from a front lateral stack. Disturbance to the front and rear walls indicates that the lower end has been rebuilt, probably in the late C17. In the 1940s a straight stair was inserted in the passage, probably coeval with the blocking of the stair turrets. An extension has been added at right angles to the main range, abutting the lower end and forming an L-plan and the house has been refenestrated with metal frame casements. 2 storeys. Approximately symmetrical 3-window front,the eaves thatch eybrowed over the first floor windows, a C20 thatched porch to the front door into the passage with a C20 metal frame glazed door to the right of the porch giving a direct entry into the right-hand room. Fenestration of C20 metal frame casements in altered embrasures. The rear elevation, directly on to Six Mile Hill is particularly attractive with rounded projections to left and right with the thatch carried down as catslide roofs to the projections. One central first floor C20 window to rear and 1 small blocked ground floor rear window, probably C17, with a timber lintel. Interior Several features of interest survive: the hall, to the right has 1 chamfered cross beam and part of a deeply chamfered half-beam with step stops truncated by the chimney stack. The fireplace has a plain timber lintel and has been partly rebuilt in brick. An oak plank and muntin screen with chamfered muntins stopped at hall bench level forms the partition wall between hall and passage; part of the screen has been cut to form a hatch but the structure is intact. Thick cob wall between passage and lower end room, the lower end (left) room has a cross beam with a narrow chamfer and step stops, C20 grate to stack. Some circa late C17/C18 joinery survives on the first floor with plank doors with strap hinges. 1 circa C17 roof truss (closed) survives over the right-hand room with a mortises apex, coeval rafters and ridge intact. Old photograph in possession of owner showing front elevation with casement windows. Some good interior features and a prominent rear elevation to Six Mile Hill.

Listing NGR: SX8259194259

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