NHER 35737 (Monument record) - Bottom Cottage, Hales Green

Originally a two cell, end stack and loft timber framed house of about 1600 with 19th century facade; disembowelled about 1930, abandoned about 1990. To be demolished?
See (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 October 2000.

November 2000. Trial Trench and Building Survey.
An archaeological evaluation and building survey was undertaken in advance of demolition of the current building and the constuction of a new residential property. A single trench was excavated acros the foot print of the proposed new building. A modern brick-lined culvert, and single linear feature contained a relatively large assemblage of mid 18th century pottery and glass, were recorded. This feature may have been a soakaway, or simply a boundary feature filled iwth domestic rubbish from the cottage.
The survey suggested tha the earliest surviving elements of Bottom Cottage date from the 17th century. It originally consisited of one heated room, plus two service rooms constructed with timber-framed walls and possibly a brick east gable. The timber-framed building was rebuilt in brick and a two storey extension added in the 19th century.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.196).
D. Gurney (NLA), December 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 June 2019.