NHER 14261 (Building record) - 29 Market Place (Clay Cottage)

November 1959. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. 17th century. Timber frame with steep pantile roof with gable ends. The west end of house has been rendered, the east end has exposed close-set studding. Two storeys and attic (attic window in gable end). Asymmetrical fenestration…central axial brick chimney stack."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 February 2022.

November 1978. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU):
Cottage: two storeys, timber framed, timbers on south exposed but east gable suggests clay lump walling. Several windows of original dimensions. Brick central chimney. Lead plaque of dog. 16th century?
Former Dog public house.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 29 November 1978. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 February 2022.

May 2004.
(S1) dates as 17th century timber frame. The timbering exposed at the east end of the south wall where there are studs and a midwall rail was seen, though lead plaque of dog not seen on this occasion.
E. Rose (NLA), 29 May 2004.

April 2013. Inspection
Repairs in progress. 17th- and 18th-century house with a central axial stack. Western half is an 18th-century rebuild. The partly 17th century eastern half of the house retains a spinal bridging joist with flat common joists of which some re-used. Fine deeply cambered hearth bressumer. Surviving original studwork with midrail to south side only. To north side 19th century frame of light scantling and tension braces. Two tie beams visible at first floor with renewed arched braces. The former attic floor joists to west half of first floor room were of three chamfered beams of which only the trenches which carried them remain. Roof structure modern except for gable-end where a cambered collar with inserted closing studwork is visible. Western half is a replacement of former, probably smaller, west wing. Spinal bridging joist, probably re-used, with stepped run-out and nicked chamfer stops. Narrower flue to axial stack. Some exposed frame to west gable-end with tension braces. Typical 18th-century roof structure with wedge-tenoned and tapered butt purlins and ridge board. Pantiles over this half are partly of 'blue Holland' type (unglazed black) and probably 18th century.
Metal plaque of dog in relief survives inisde the house dating from its days as an inn.
S. Heywood (HES) 29 April 2013