Listed Building: CHURCH COTTAGES (1312560)

SJ 46 NE 2/49 TARVIN C.P. CHURCH STREET (East Side) Church Cottages. 22/10/1952 GV II Formerly farmhouse, now a house: early C16 with extensive later C20 restoration. Timber framed on plinth with rendered concrete block repairs. Welsh slate roof and a ridge brick chimney. 2-room plan with cross-passage behind the stack. 1-storey and attic, 4-bay front. 13 by 2 tall timber panels remain (almost close-studding with middle rail). Left end bay has had timber replaced. Late C20 casements with glazing bars, including a line of 3 in gabled dormers. Door in 2nd bay not quite in original position. To rear some early timberwork in central dormer. Interior: Hall to right of entrance has inglenook with chamfered bressumer, above which is an original timber-framed fire hood. The ceiling beams and joists are a C17 insertion into an open hall. There are remains of 3 full cruck trusses of which the southernmost is nearly complete. The cruck blades are arched and have a tiebeam, collar and sprockets. Church House (q.v.) was the parlour wing added to this farmhouse in Elizabethan times. Listing NGR: SJ4913166983