Manor Cottage Including Garden Area Wall Immediately to South

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DITTISHAM SX 8654-SX8754 MANOR STREET(NORTH 17/281 SIDE

9.2.61 Manor Cottage including garden area wall immediately South

GV II

House. Probably early C16, remodelled in circa late C16 or early C17, altered and extended in circa late C18 and/or Cl9; restored and extended again in late C20. Stone rubble with plastered front. Grouted scantle slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. 2 large stone rubble stacks; the axial stack to the left of centre in front of the ridge has slate weathering, the right hand gable end stack is rendered. Plan: The original house had a 2-room plan with a central through passage; the lower end to the right is heated from a gable end stack; the hall to the left with its axial stack backing onto the passage may have been originally open to the roof and possibly heated from this stack when the house was first built. If it were an open hall house the floors would have been inserted in circa late C16 or early C17. There are 2 stair turrets for newel stairs, one rising from the rear of the lower end of the hall next to the passage back doorway, the other newel staircase is situated at the front of the lower end next to the passage front doorway. In circa late C18 or C19 single storey outshuts were added to each end and possibly also at that time a first floor doorway was inserted at the front for access to the chamber over the hall. In the late C20 a small single storey extension was built behind the lower end, the passage was made into a small central room by moving the lower side partition and the living accommodation was extended into the outshuts. Exterior: storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window main range plus loft doorway at the left hand end of the front. Circa early C19 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars and slate sills and small C19 single-light stair window with glazing bars to right of centre. Doorway at centre with scantle slate lean-to canopy and late C20 plank door. At the left end of the front stone steps up to former loft doorway with a C20 glazed plank door. Set back at left end the late C18 or early Cl9 lean-to with a half- hipped slate roof. At the right hand end a circa late C18 or C19 single storey outshut with a low-pitched scantle slate roof. The rear elevation has an asymmetrical arrangement of small C19 2-light casements with glazing bars and C20 garden doors to the right. To the right of centre the rear wall bulges and has 2 single-light windows lighting the newel stairs. To the left of centre a late C20 single storey out shut with a low-pitched hipped scantle slate roof and a late C20 conservatory in the angle to the left. Including front garden area boundary wall immediately south of the house; probably early C19, mostly slate and limestone rubble, the wall terminates in a circular gate-pier at the right end; it slopes with the incline of the road to which it acts as a retaining wall since the front garden is at a lower level. Interior: Rounded head to chamfered wooden doorframe from the former passage to the hall. The hall has a large aerial stack at its lower end with a corbelled dressed slate joint supporting a large chamfered wooden lintel with indeterminate stops. Chamfered cross-beams in the hall with straight cut stops; some of the joists are also chamfered with straight cut lintel with step stops and a clay oven, and later ceiling joists. Roughly hewn joists in former passage (room between lower room and hall). The chamber over the hall has a small late C19 cast iron range. The fireplace lintel is exposed in the chamber over the lower end. Roof: Later soft-wood trusses with collars lapped and pegged to the faces of the principals. The foot of one earlier truss remains over the lower end at the front, it is straight.

Listing NGR: SX8640854763

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