NHER 44007 (Building record) - Manor Cottage, Church Place

House. Datestone 1742, perhaps dating a refacing and heightening of an earlier galleted structure. Knapped and galleted flint laid in courses, brick dressings, black glazed pantiled roofs. 2 storeys, 7 openings: 3 blocked and 4 open windows. Perhaps originally a pre-1700 lobby entrance plan house at north, later heightened and divided into cottages, now in 2 occupations. 4 ground floor window openings. 2 blocked doors and one open door. 2 north 3-light casement cross windows, one central 3-light cast iron framed and glazing barred casement, one 2-light casement cross window at south. 2 blocked doors dating from division into cottages. South door with architrave and 20th century hipped pentice canopy. 2 north windows under flat arches, 2 south windows under cambered arches, brick dressings. 3 first floor. Casement cross windows, one cast iron framed with glazing bars 2-light casement. 3 blocked bricked up windows, all with flush brick rusticated surrounds. Brick quoins and eaves cornice. Swept eaves, one south end gable and one north axial stack. South gable has pebble flint courses of earlier roof pitch with brick tumbling above existing roof pitch. North gable has 2 storey canted pebble dashed bow, about 1900, with lead glazing bar windows.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 14 March 2006.