Summary
A late-C18 or early-C19 brick and thatch New Forest cottage with a timber-framed extension and C20 additions.
Reasons for Designation
Thatched Cottage, a late-C18 to early-C19 cottage within the New Forest, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: this late-C18 or early-C19 cottage retains its plan form and a significant amount of original fabric, fixtures and fittings.
* Historic interest: as a rare survival of an unchanged late-C18 or early-C19 New Forest cottage, related to the specific forest economy, and whose story is reflected in its fabric.
History
Thatched Cottage was built as built as a forester's cottage, on what was probably a mid-C17 encroachment, some time after 1787 and before 1818. In 1787 it was the home of the Rev William Arthur Heywood, who was a son of Lt Col Nathaniel Heywood (d.1808) who had been the Deputy Warden of the New Forest, an important role responsible for the foresters, the game, preservation of the Forest and maintenance of Forest Law. The cottage was originally a simple two-room structure with additional loft accommodation. The first extension to the building was a timber-framed bay, originally agricultural by its appearance, added to the south-west end of the building before 1891. On the 1909 map (when known as Rose Cottage) an outshot is depicted on the north-east end of the building, but this must have been removed when a brick extension was built on the rear of the cottage in the mid-C20. A more recent north-east extension abuts this C20 build.
Details
MATERIALS: Thatched Cottage is built of red brick with a thatched roof. The rear extension is of lime silicate bricks and the gable end extensions are of weatherboard-cladding and timber plank.
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