Description

BADSEY

1559/1/10007 ORCHARD WAY
10-FEB-05 9

II
Cottage in two units. Late C17/ early C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Part timber-framed, wholly faced in largish bricks in a version of English garden wall bond, some fragments of lime render. Very large stepped stone external stack of grey lias with some yellow limestone quoins, upper levels of brick; roof of handmade tiles with dentilled eaves; brick end stack left and small rear external brick stack to right. Plan of two units, the division with the second unit to right clearly visible in a vertical crack in the brickwork and in the roof profile. Two storeys. Three-window range of casements close under eaves. Ground floor has off-centre segmental-arched doorway with boarded door and main segmental-arched ground floor window to left; blocked arched opening to right. The main frontage to the former second cottage is on gable end with boarded door and segmental-arched window adjacent.
Interior: Door opens direct into the kitchen/living room with low lath and plaster ceiling with heavy chamfered and stopped spine beam and a cross joist. Open stone fireplace with mantelshelf, partly blocked with later range; bread oven and salt niche. Adjacent to front door wooden winder stairs behind boarded door rise to first floor landing, with timber framing visible to left and right, part black painted. To left the later re-modelling is clearly visible in the limewashed timber-framing which shows the alteration to the roof pitch and the raised height of the frontage to provide first floor windows. The bedroom also has limewashed timber framing in gable-end wall with a small C19 fireplace fitted into the main flue and a window fitted into the timber-framing; original roof-pitch to rear with dormers.
Access to second unit through ground-floor doorway created under stairs, passes through what was formerly a narrow passage space with limewashed vertical post timber-framing, possibly formerly used as a pantry/dairy. The second unit main ground floor room has a higher ceiling, with a heavy cross beam with very narrow chamfer and exposed joists, painted black. Fireplace is C20 and relates to a very narrow external stack The second staircase rises against frontage to single bedroom which again shows in its limewashed timber-framing the original roof pitch; lath and plaster ceiling.
The core of this building is a timber-framed cottage, probably late C17/early C18, which was subsequently re-fronted, altered and converted into two cottages probably early C19, and in early C20 converted into one dwelling. The settlement pattern in this area consists of nucleated farmhouses arranged either side of the main thoroughfare with lanes at right angles where such smaller cottages were located. Scattered stone tiles in garden suggest a former roof covering.
An interesting survival of a small timber-framed cottage with a very large external stone stack encased within later cottages, both stages representing small-scale rural accommodation.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670737

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)