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The Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Fovant, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0547 / 51°3'17"N

Longitude: -1.9916 / 1°59'29"W

OS Eastings: 400687

OS Northings: 128377

OS Grid: SU006283

Mapcode National: GBR 2YJ.TJX

Mapcode Global: FRA 66QB.FXN

Plus Code: 9C3W3235+V9

Entry Name: The Cottage

Listing Date: 27 April 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1146134

English Heritage Legacy ID: 320782

ID on this website: 101146134

Location: Fovant, Wiltshire, SP3

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Fovant

Built-Up Area: Fovant

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Fovant St George

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


The following building shall be added to the list:

SU 02 NW FOVANT BROOK LANE

4/195 The Cottage

II

Small house. Probably C16, moulded in circa C17 and C18 and in C20. Painted
sandstone with dressed sandstone front. Hipped plain tile roof. StacKs
at sides with rebuilt brick shafts.

Plan: 2-room plan with central entrance into the right-hand room, straight
stairs against the partition and C20 wing at rear. Originally both rooms
were open to the roof, heated by separate open hearth fires and divided
by a closed truss; it was probably part of a larger range. The circa C17 floors
were inserted and a side stack built to serve the left room, while the
right-hand room may have been unheated after the floor was inserted. The
house was refronted in circa C18, although one of the window keyblocks has
date 1670.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window west front. C19 or C20 3-light
casements with glazing bars and keystones to flat arches; ground floor left
window has circa C18 casement and keystone with inset wooden tablet inscribed
with illegible initials, the name Jay and date 1670. Central doorway with
C19 plank door. Casements on returns and with C20 single storey wing at
rear.

Interior: The left hand room has chamfered axial beams with ogee stops,
large fireplace with chamfered cambered timber lintel and sections of C17
or C18 moulded plaster cornice. The right hand room has roughly chamfered
axial beam, exposed joists and C20 fireplace. On first floor the closed
truss is exposed; it is a raised cruck with cambered morticed collar, infilled
with wattle-and-daub and smoke-blackened on both sides (evident in roof
space); the purlins appear to be trenched but the trenched diagonal ridgepiece
is missing. The common rafters have been removed and a C20 roof built
above.

Note: "Jay" on the keyblock is reputedly the name of a Wilton estate mason.


Listing NGR: SU0068728377

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