Description

TL 51 SE AYTHORPE RODING KEERES GREEN

5/13 JUDDS COTTAGE

GV II*

Small hall house, early C14, altered circa 1600 and in C20. Timber-framed,
plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays, with integral parlour/solar end to S,
twin service rooms to N, 2-bay hall. Chimney stack of one hearth inserted
in N bay of hall, circa 1600, with back to cross-entry. Floor inserted in hall,
circa 1600. E elevation, 3 C20 casement windows, door with small glass pane.
C20 casement window in gabled dormer. Roof half-hipped to S, hipped to N.
The front and rear doors are still on the line of the original cross-entry.
Framing exposed internally. One 2-centred service doorhead present, raised
above original height owing to sinking of footings or rise of ground level
over 6½ centuries. Original solar floor raised for same reason, confirmed
by evidence of removed unglazed windows, all low in the walls. Curved tension
bracing trenched to outside of studs. Jowled wallposts, cambered central
tiebeam, crownpost roof almost complete, Original rafters, collars and battens,
all heavily smoke-blackened, thatch renewed. Central crownpost of octagonal
section with scroll-moulded cap and moulded base clasping tiebeam.
Originally with 4 upper braces, of which only one axial brace is missing.
Lateral braces are lap-jointed to rafters in same housings as collars, an early
feature. All collars lap-jointed to rafters with nail-headed pegs, some
pegged to collar-purlin. Curved rising braces to king stud at N end of hall.
This building is in an exceptionally unchanged condition. It is comparable
with Bridge House, Fyfield, (Hewett 1973, pp. 174-5) but more of it has
survived. The S wall of the solar has been altered at an early date, probably
C16 or earlier, substituting widely spaced diamond mullions for the wall
studs, presumably to obtain a high level of daylight for some craft operation
conducted there, for the mullions extend almost to floor level. Minor
alterations to brickwork of hearth, from 1973.

Listing NGR: TL5957614275

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533783

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