Building record 1689/0/3 - Tudor Cottage, Grade II Listed Seventeenth Century Cottage

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /2/73 (Report). SCH1934.

Tudor Cottage, Old Hall Street, Grade II Listed: C17, of brick-nogged small framing, partly rebuilt in brick; grey slate roof of steep pitch, probably formerly thatched. Two storeys, two windows. Boarded door, six-pane casements. Right gable rebuilt in brick; left gable and rear pebbledashed. Full architectural description.

<2> Garry Miller Historic Building Consultancy, 2017, Proposed Development at The Red Lion Hotel, Malpas: Heritage Assessment, R4210 (Client Report). SCH8533.

A heritage assessment was undertaken in 2017 for a group of buildings, including Tudor Cottage, prior to proposed conversion and re-modelling. Tudor Cottage is described as a small, L-shaped, timber-framed cottage of probable early to mid seventeenth century date. It has later additions along with modern alterations associated with its use as a hotel.

Its exterior is characterised by small framing. The right gable and part of the rear wall have been re-built in nineteenth century brick, and here, the building has a large, rounded south-east corner facing a yard. The rear wing has been re-built likely in the mid to late nineteenth century and is now rendered, as is most of the rear.

The original building is of two-unit plan, with a contemporary two-storey rear wing. Downstairs the principal room, in the first bay, has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams and a large firehood against the north gable. The second bay was a small parlour, also with a beamed ceiling, which has been sub-divided using an imitation timber partition to create a bathroom and WC. On the crosswall separating the parlour from the staircase there is a fragment of wall painting, it depicts allegorical figures. The painting was found in 1990 and considered original at this time; if original, it is a rare feature. The firehood in the rear wing appears to be a twentieth century addition. The timber-framed wall separating this room from the main range is exposed on the first floor where it incorporates a collar truss; redundant, original purlin mortices in the collar truss testify the pitch of the roof has been altered.