Description

HOPTON WAFERS

SO67NE Catherton Cottage
582-1/2/125

II*

House, formerly 2 houses. Late C14 or early C15 with later
restorations and rebuilding. Painted stone rubble with some
timber framing with painted brick infill. Plain-tile roofs.
Central stone stack with axial brick ridge shaft, brick gable
end stack to south. 4-bay range with additional half bay and
end extensions.
EXTERIOR: single-storey and attic, and cellar. West side of
painted stone rubble to right-hand half with 2-storey 2-window
range of C20 casements with C20 ground-floor bay window to
left. Left half covered by stone rubble gabled and lean-to
extensions.
East side: C20 3-light casement flanked by 2-light casements.
Gabled dormer to right. Vestigial timber framing to left bay
with posts and swept tension brace with raised truncated
part-framed gable-end above wall plate. Projecting bread oven
in centre of stone-walled section.
North gable end: two 2-light casements at ground level with a
2-light casement and single casement set in vertical boarded
gable-end at attic level. South gable end: partly obscured by
C20 single-storey stone gabled wing.
INTERIOR: single purlin roof. Full cruck truss to south with
lapped ridge saddle and restored tie beam and diagonally-set
ridge. Full central cruck truss with arch-braced collar with
all arrises chamfered with plain cut stops; twin raking struts
over collar and ridge saddle, together with surrounding
sections all cusped to form trefoils flanking quatrefoil. The
truss was originally open over a one and a half bay medieval
open hall. C17 stone stack inserted in half-bay of former
hall, with coursed rubble walls with C19 bread oven to east
and cambered mantelbeam with ovolo moulding. Deep chamfered
inserted floor with rounded chamfered stops.
3 trusses in north bays with cambered tie beams and collars
evident on the inner truss; inserted central truss with collar
and twin raking struts over with twin supporting posts below;
north gable-end truss with tie beam, twin vertical struts,
collar with twin raking struts over.
(Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society: Moran
M: Shrewsbury: 1987-: 45-49).

Listing NGR: SO6532678386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551388

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas