NHER 24842 (Building record) - Primrose Cottage, Briar Lane

October 1988. Building Survey.
Examined by E. Rose (NAU).
House, mostly 17th century but with service end very probably older.
Hidden a great deal by recent renovations.
Report (S1) in file.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 21 October 1988.

June 1989. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. Circa mid 17th century extended in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Steeply pitched pantile roof with bargeboards to gable ends. Brick axial stack to left of centre.
Plan: The original house is the three-room plan main range with a lobby entrance in front of the central axial stack which has back-to-back fireplaces heating the central and left hand rooms. There is a small unheated room at the right hand end. The single storey one-room-plan extension at the left (south) end is probably 18th century and the outshuts behind the extension and behind the right hand end are probably 19th century, the latter having been largely rebuilt in the 20th century. There is a 20th-century single-storey outshut at the left south end.
Exterior: One storey and attic. Asymmetrical three-window east front. Twentieth-century two-light casements. Two gabled half-dormers also with 20th-century casements. Doorway to left of centre with 19th-century panelled door and 20th-century open timber porch. Single storey extension at left end with gable-ended pantile roof, four-light casement at front and single storey outshut at left end. Right hand (north) end has circa early 19th-century attic casement in gable. Rear (west) elevation has two small and one large 20th-century casements, 20th-century glazed door to left of centre and single storey outshuts to left and right.
Interior: Central room has fireplace with unchamfered lintel and blocked oven and the ceiling is plastered. The right hand end room has former window in rear wall (now doorway) with mortices in the lintel for diamond mullions. The left hand room of original house has a chamfered cross-beam with notched run-out stops and a brick fireplace with chamfered lintel. Over both the fireplaces there are exposed timber bressummers. In the chambers above the left room there is a smaller fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops. The left end room in the south addition has slighter scantling cross-beams. The winder staircase rising from the lobby entrance and against the axial stack has a stick balustrade at the top. The original roof has three tiers of staggered butt purlins and a later ridgeboard; the stack is in a separate bay and appears to replace a timber-framed stack".
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 January 2025.