NHER 41841 (Building record) - Quaker Cottage, Low Common

June 1981. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Probably early 18th century. Plastered timber-frame cottage range. Steep pantile roof with gabled ends. North-west end 18th century brick faced with stepped gable and chimney stack. One storey and attic (attic window in gable end). Long range with 5 casement windows. Later lean-tos at each end and at rear.
Information from (S1).

Small timber framed house, 18th century, yet east end retained traditional hall and services plan with gable stack; west end added soon afterwards, single cell with gable stack. Reused beam of around 1600 in older section. Important example of late timber framing on traditional lines.
See (S1) and (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 28 June 2005.

July 2010. Building Recording.
Timber-framed semi detached pair of cottages, dated by inscription on rafter 1791 with initials IS. Earlier (c.1640) returned brick gable-end with stack and crow-stepped parapet. Ovolo-moulded re-used joist. Probably a single cell house originally, similar to NHER 19254.
See (S3) for further information.
S. Heywood (NCC), 6 September 2010.