Description

ORLETON CP COMBERTON SO 4967 10/95 Pool Cottage 11.6.59

GV II

House. Early C17, remodelled later C17 with some mid-C20 restoration. Timber-frame with rendered infill, extended in brick with machine tile roof. L-plan, cross-wing extending to south, other range to east has been shortened as evidenced by blocked mortices in gable end. Main stack of rubble with two linked brick shafts laterally placed on west wall of cross- wing. North front of two storeys, with an attic to gabled cross-wing on right formerly lit by a blocked 3-light window. First floor has three plus one windows, the left-hand one a 2-light casement, then two single- light casements and a 3-light casement. Ground floor has a pair of single- light casements to left and two 3-light casements. Entrance to left of centre has a C20 ledged and boarded door. Framing: the cross-wing is jettied with a moulded bressummer supported on curved brackets rising from pilasters with capitals. The central window has a moulded sill, with a carved figure on stud below holding an axe in his right hand. Ground floor is two square panels high, first floor four rectangular panels high, the two upper central panels have curved nibbed braces. Roof truss hasa strut each side of window, lintel formed by a high collar with nibbed curved struts above. Other range is four square panels high with straight angle braces. (RCHM, 3, p 159, no 28; Parkinson, J and Ould E A: Old Cottages, Farmhouses and other half-timber buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire, 1904, pl 35).

Listing NGR: SO4976067763

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