NHER 41255 (Building record) - Tudor Cottage, Heath Road

June 1981. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"17th century cottage. Timber-frame, roughcast. Gable-ended thatched roof. One storey and attic. Two windows, casements. Modern gabled porch at centre. Modern flat roof dormer. Rendered brick chimney stack in west end. Adjoins west of former Filling Station."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Beers (HES), 27 June 2020.

March 2005. Visit. Marked as Tudor House on GIS.
Small house aligned east-west with dormer to south in thatched roof; modern porch; rendered stack to west. Interior of ground floor consisted of one room, now with inserted partition towards north. The ceiling area is supported on two massive but plain parallel beams aligned north-south which rest on brackets cut roughly out of wallposts; the joists are square sectioned. The northwest corner has been removed to give access to an extension and the lines of the walls are represented by boxed beams. The fireplace has a very crude bressumer above a rectangular heath; the bricks have been re-cemented. The east corners of the house have long straight braces rising to the corner posts. The upper floor reveals that the posts have very small jowls. There is no fireplace at this level. The west gable, north of the stack, has a tree branch supporting the purlin. The staircase is a recent insertion; it was probably once south of the stack. The crudity of the timberwork and fireplace suggest a date around 1700. The house is said to once have been attached to Elizabethan Cottage (NHER 41256) and may have been subsidiary to it.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 March 2005.