Description

TL 73 NE
4/43

GREAT YELDHAM
DICKETTS HILL, West Side
Old Drawwell Cottage

II

Cottage, C16, extended in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade
red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect NW, with one axial chimney stack.
C19 extension to SE of NE end, forming an L-plan. Single storey with attics.
2 doors, 3 windows, 2 more in gabled dormers, all removed for renovation at
time of survey, January 1984, but C19 cast iron windows being repaired for
replacement on this side. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, curved
bracing trenched inside studs. All floors in main range are inserted, supported
on pegged clamps. Transverse and axial beams, the latter with lamb's tongue
stops, plain joists of horizontal section. Roof rebuilt in softwood.

Listing NGR: TL7687836345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458446

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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