Description

TL 7031-7131
5/177

WETHERSFIELD
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Briar Cottage

GV
II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Park View. House. C17, altered in C20. Timber
framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing
SE, with axial stack at right end, originally external, enclosed by one-bay
extension to right, late C17/early C18. C20 external stack at left end. C20
single-storey extension to rear with felted lean-to roof, and further extension
at rear right corner with roof of red interlocking tiles. One storey with
attics. One C20 splayed bay, 2 C19 casements, and 2 C19/early C20 casements in
gabled dormers. C20 door at front of gabled porch. The original building
comprises a heated room of 2 bays and an unheated parlour of one bay, with
jowled posts and straight rising braces at the corners, trenched inside the
studs. The heated room has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops
and plain joists of horizontal section. The parlour has chamfered longitudinal
joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. All joists are supported
on pegged clamps but appear to be original. Large wood-burning hearth of 0.23
metre brickwork with ogee-headed salt recess in left flank, mantel beam
replaced. Some original wattle and daub in rear wall. The right extension has a
chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical
section. Clasped purlin roof. Some fire damage at right rear corner of original
building. An unusual example of a small house of the first half of the C17,
with high quality finish, extended soon afterwards. RCHM 5.

Listing NGR: TL7133131381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461940

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)