Description

YALDING BENOVER ROAD
TQ 74 NW
(South-west side)
4/67 Little Benover
Cottage and Well
Cottage
II

House pair. Early C17 with later alterations. Timber framed. Front
elevation rendered, with exposed full-height posts. Plain tile roof.
Two timber-framed bays to left of centre, and possibly a further two
to right. 2 storeys, on rendered plinth. Front elevation possibly rebuilt
in late C17 or C18, with three full-height posts delineating two left
bays. Exposed midrail and three studs to right of centre. Roof half-
hipped to left, gabled to right. Projecting brick gable-end stack to left,
and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one
three-light to left end, one two-light to left-central bay, one three-light
towards right end, and leaded single light under right stack. Ribbed door
under lean-to brick porch to right end of left bay, to Little Benover
Cottage. Boarded door in similar porch to right end to Well Cottage.
Rendered lean-to to left, and red and grey brick lean-to with rendered
gable to right. Interior: only partly inspected. Three late C16 or early
C17 gunstock-jowled posts to rear wall of Little Benover Cottage, the
central post of the three not aligned with front elevation post. Tie-beam
to right post of the three, with clasped-purlin truss above it. Said to
be more framing to right. Formerly known as Myrtle Cottage and Linton
Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ7017848560

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26409145

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