Building record 689/0/2 - Raintub Cottage, Church Street

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 403002 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House: seventeenth century or earlier, extensively rebuilt in late twentieth century by James Brotherhood copying its nineteenth century appearance externally. Washed English garden wall bond brick. Thatched roof and one ridge and one gable brick chimney. Lobby-entry plan. One-storey and attic, four-bay west front. Windows are late twentieth century three-light wooden mullioned windows with applied diamond leaded glazing. The second bay has a similar window in a gabled dormer. Added late twentieth century gabled porch and continuous outshut to rear with stone slate roof. Interior: contains a full cruck framed truss with tiebeam and collar and framed infill. The original wind braced purlins survive. The former hall is now open to the roof and is overlooked by a gallery.