Description

NORWOOD BRAT LANE
SE 25 SW
(north side)
7/76 Scow Cottage and attached
outbuilding and garden wall
22.11.66 (formerly listed as scow
Cottage and outbuildings)
GV II

House. Dated 1619 with late C17 alterations and C20 restoration. Coursed
squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays with
central single-storey gabled open porch. Porch: incised single-piece
segmental arch to doorcase on moulded imposts; ball finial to gable. Inner
door of 4 panels; shallow triangular doorhead with lintel inscribed "IAP
1619". Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout plus returned
hoodmould to 2 large ground-floor windows; single light to left of porch;
ground floor left - a 5-light window, the right light blocked; to right of
porch al-light window, 1 mullion removed. First floor, left - 5 lights,
reduced to 4; right - 5 lights; these windows are shorter than those to
ground floor and are set under deep eaves. Bulbous kneelers, gable copings,
end stacks, that to left corniced, that to right reduced. Interior: main
room to right of entrance: fireplace of 2 main phases: wooden bressumer beam
"(I)668"
supported by chamfered stone jambs with inscription (A)MP ; probable
base of stone stairs to right of fireplace; ogee head to oven entrance.
Ground floor, left: parlour fireplace with cambered arch and syma-moulded
chamfer. The inner faces of the jambs to both ground-floor windows have
slots and holes into which horizontal bars could be fitted. A spine beam
carries the upper floor. First floor, right: the stone fireplace has a
" A P "
plaque with an inscrition: M . An important house because of the
1668
survival of a dated stone chimney providing heated rooms on ground and first
floor. Garden wall to left and enclosing front garden: approximately
3 metres high to left of house, pierced by a gate with a (probably
imitation) lintel carved with the date 1619. The wall steps down to
approximately 1.25 metres high as it follows a curve to enclose the front
garden; chamfered coping stones. Outbuilding at right angle to right:
possibly late C18 reusing C17 masonry. 1 storey, 4 bays; roll moulding to
doors bays 2 and 4, both with tie-stone jambs; recessed chamfered windows,
of 2 lights to bay l and of 4 lights to bay 3. Gable copings, reduced stack
to left. Interior not inspected. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular
Buildings Study Group Report No 402 (1978).

Listing NGR: SE2003752160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26469307

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)