Cakebole Cottage

Summary

C17 cottage with C19, C20 and C21 alterations and additions. The late C20 extensions are excluded from the List entry.

Reasons for Designation

Cakebole Cottage, a C17 timber-framed dwelling, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a good example of a C17 timber-framed cottage with a two-room plan;
* the building retains a significant proportion of its C17 fabric including much of its timber framing, chamfered ceiling beams and roof trusses.

Historic interest:

* for its illustration of C17 timber-framed building techniques.

History

The cottage appears to have been built in the C17 as a one and a half storey, timber-framed dwelling, with a two-room plan and a heated room at the south-west end. The brick lean-to, with stepped brickwork to the verge, is a mid-C19 addition that has been altered and extended in the C20. In the late C20 the cottage was extended to the rear to include a single-storey and two-storey extension with an attached garage to the side; this was converted to form part of the main house in the early C21. The interior of the house underwent some modernisation in the late C20 and early C21.

Details

C17 cottage with C19, C20 and C21 alterations and additions. The late C20 extensions are excluded from the List entry.

MATERIALS: the cottage is constructed of timber-framed square panelling, with brick infill panels; much of the ground floor has been rebuilt in brick. It has a plain clay tile roof, and a brick stack to the south-west gable. There are C21 uPVC bargeboards applied to the gable ends. The windows are early C21 timber casements.

PLAN: a rectangular building, aligned on a south-west to north-east axis, with a two-room plan and an inserted cross passage which incorporates the staircase. The heated room is to the south-west end with an external gable-end stack. There is a mid-C19 lean-to added to the south-west end, altered and extended in the C20.

EXTERIOR: the one and a half storey timber-framed, C17 cottage has a gabled north-east elevation with square panel timber-framing with straight braces and brick infill. The ground floor, largely rebuilt in brick, has a three-light window, and to the gable are a pair of two-light windows. The roof truss comprises a tie beam, with three vertical struts supporting the collar above with vee-struts to the principal rafters.

The two-bay north-west elevation has brick to the ground floor and square-panelling above, with brick infill panels. Straight braces denote the extent of the two bays. The ground floor has five two-light windows that flank the now blocked, off-centre entrance. To the right is the end wall of the lean-to with stepped brickwork to the verges.

The south-west elevation has a two-light window in the gable, to the left of the brick stack that partially obscures the roof truss. The vee strut and two of the vertical struts to the collar are visible.

A dormer window has been inserted to the rear (south-east) elevation and the roof has been extended to form a catslide roof incorporating a late C20 single-storey addition.

INTERIOR: the C17 cottage is accessed through the late C20 extension, and its timber-framed rear wall now forms an internal wall. The north-east room has an axial C17 chamfered ceiling beam with stepped stops at its south-west end. It is supported by a C20 brick pillar. The C17 cross frame forms the partition wall, and an opening has been created to give access to the inserted cross passage and the heated room beyond. Within the cross passage is a C20 staircase, accessible from the rear extension. The south-west room has a C17 chamfered beam which runs through the later partition and has stepped stops where it meets the C17 cross frame. The timber-framed gable end wall is visible in the lean-to addition at the south-west end. The rear wall has been removed giving access to the later C20 single-storey addition.

At first floor a doorway has been cut through the tie beam of the internal cross frame, and an additional partition wall inserted between this and the north-east wall to form a corridor providing access to the C20 rear extension. The purlins and the three C17 roof trusses are extant with their tie beams, collars and principal rafters.

Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 it is declared that the late C20 single-storey and two-storey extension to the rear (south-east) elevation and the late C20 single-storey extension to the side (north-east) elevation are not of special architectural or historic interest.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

157007

Legacy System:

LBS

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