Building record 355/0/1 - Marbury Cottage, Church Lane

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57077 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House. Late sixteenth - early seventeenth century house added to c.1660 and again c.1720, with twentieth century alterations. Timber framed with brick infill and Flemish and random bond brickwork with a slate roof. Two storeys. Road front: gabled wing to left of centre with twentieth century tripartite windows to the ground and first floors. The right hand side has close-studding with an angle brace to the left hand corner and an inserted row of eighteenth century studding above this. One three-light ground floor window with ovolo-moulded mullions at left. To right of this is a wing rebuilt in the twentieth century with three twentieth century two-light ground floor windows, and to the first floor a single-light and two two-light casement windows. To left of the gabled wing is renewed twentieth century brickwork at ground floor level and close studding with middle rail to the first floor with an angle brace at right. To the left is a portion of random bonded eighteenth century brickwork. The garden front has at right a chimney breast of eighteenth century brick and at left of this uneven timber framing with small cells and angle braces. Glazed door and two single-light windows to the ground floor with a nineteenth century cross window at left. One three-light and one single light window to the first floor. Lower service wing at left refaced in nineteenth century bricks. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams and rafters to ground and first floor rooms, small framing to staircase well and one ground floor room and close studding to wall at first floor level. Raised and fielded panelling of pine to one ground floor room of late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century date and doors to first floor of seventeenth century date with chased strap hinges with fleur de lys ends and eighteenth century doors with butterfly hinges and one mid to late eighteenth century door with 'in and out' planks and a door latch of contemporary form.