Description

TL 3856 COMBERTON SWAYNES LANE (South Side)

9/45 No. 2 (Dormers)

GV II

Cottage. Early-mid C16 and two later enlargements of C17 and C18. Timber-framed, plaster and roughcast rendered, and reed thatched roofs. Original ridge stack of narrow, red brick, broad mortar courses, and rebuilt upper courses of grey brick. Original cottage of three bay, lobby entry plan, extended by a fourth bay to one end probably in C17. One storey and attic. Three dormers. Three casements and doorway in original location opposite the stack. In the rear wall an early C19 horizontall sliding sash with segmental arched top panes. Bread oven projects from rear wall. At the rear is an outhouse or service wing, originally detached, now converted to living and linked to the C16 cottage. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and reed thatched with single flue stack of grey brick, probably early C19. One storey and attic. Two dormers. Three ground floor casements and originally two doors, one now blocked. Inside: Timber-framing of C16 cottage of heavy, uniform scantling similar to that of C16 bay at No. 69 Swaynes Lane (qv). Floor frame of one end bay exposed. Broad stop-chamfered main beam with unmoulded joists laid on edge. The main beam in the centre room has leaf stop chamfered main beam. Abutting inglenook hearths. Roof trusses of through-purlin type and original half-hipping to ends. Jowelled heads to principal posts. The late C17 single bay addition to the end has timbers of slender scantling.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(10)

Listing NGR: TL3824856017

External Links

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