Church Cottage

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SU 7151 GREYWELL GREYWELL STREET

15/22 Church Cottage

8.7.52

- II*

C15, C16, C17. 2 storeyed L-shaped timber framed structure of 2 phases, the earlier being a medieval hall of 2 bays with a cross wing at the south end, to which is attached (at the south) a long east-west range of the later period.

Red tile roof, -hipped at the north end. Massive timber-frame with arched braces, and jettied 1st floor to the cross wing (on the east side) and a jettied gable and 1st floor at the west end of the later wing. Infilling of red brick- work (English bond) and some brick walling with blue headers (Flemish bond).

Irregular fenestration, with leaded casements, several being old. Modern old style door with side windows, and a C18 panelled door on the west end. Inside, the massive fireplace is an insertion, and contains on the ground-floor a large stone fireplace with a moulded frame, and at one end a column with cap supporting corbelled stones (a fragment of C13 work said to have come from Christchurch Castle): on the 1st floor a stone fireplace has a chamfered 4-centre arch. A modern garage extension at the north-east corner in keeping.

Listing NGR: SU7172451052

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1978 IOE Records taken by Rebecca Swann; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Rebecca Swann. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project