NHER 11624 (Building record) - No 83 School Lane (Dormer Cottage)

No 83 School Lane (Dormer Cottage).
Cottage opposite Manor Farm (with 'W' on Ordnance Survey maps).

October 1976. Field Observation.
Pair of brick cottages with stepped gable to north and traces of a northern extension upon it. A modern chimney has removed the apex. Single storey with dormers (one to each cottage) in pantiled roof. These are obviously of the same date as the Manor House (NHER 11625) and in fact within living memory were occupied by the squire's bailiff.
Fair condition.
E. Rose (NAU), 13 October 1976.

January 1988. Building Survey.
Examined by A. Carter (UEA).
It appears that this building was originally a single-cell Class-S cottage of early 17th-century date. This had a brick stack and a brick north gable, although the other walls may have been timber-framed in part or whole. Later in the 17th-century (most likely around 1660) it was extended to the north and south. The north extension is brick-built and has richly moulded ground-floor beams and a crowstepped gable. The position of the door and stack suggest that this was an independent unit, i.e. another Class-S cottage. The southern extension may have been timber framed proved a service room for the original building, thus converting it to a Class-S1 house. In the 19th century the formerly timber-framed walls of the southern two-thirds of the building were cased in brick.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2017.