Monument record 15240 - Site of Watermill Cottage, Cuddington

<1> Headland Archaeology North, 2021, Watermill Cottage, Cuddington: Level 2 Historic Building Record, R4493 (Client Report). SCH8983.

A Level 2 Historic Building Record, including photographic recording, was undertaken, in 2021, at Watermill Cottage, Cuddington, prior to its demolition. The cottage dates to the mid-late eighteenth century, standing within an elongated plot on the south side of Norley Road. The building was owned and occupied as a farm with a small landholding in the mid-nineteenth century. Five broad phases of construction have been inferred based on the visible materials, form of the building and information visible in the historic map sequence, with key periods of construction and extension in the eighteenth-early nineteenth century, late nineteenth century, early twentieth century and late twentieth century. In these latest phases, the cottage had been modernised, obscuring the original building materials and resulting in the loss of many original features.