NHER 50136 (Building record) - Hunter’s Cottage, Hookwood Lane, Morley St Peter

The original plan of Hunters Cottage is a simple two cell building with a service room to the south and a larger hall with a smoke bay at its northern end. The entrance is at the low end of the hall and appears to have had a through passage to the former stair outshut. The house was originally single storied with attic. The floor of the upper storey was slightly lower than the wall plate. The building was heightened during more recent times converting it into one and a half storeys. Attached to the north gable end is the converted byre with an added chimney stack where it abuts the original house. The staircase, clearly not in its original position now rises from the hall. Tension braces at south east corner.
The original house is a plastered timber frame of about 1780 on stylistic evidence. It has jowled principal posts at the corners where the tie beams are. The light scantling and the use of tension braces which cut through the studwork rather than being halved over it suggest the late 18th or early 19th centuries. The stud partition which divides the hall from the service room has a single doorway. The positions of the studs are not marked by peg holes.
The buildings stand within the remnants of a medieval strip field system (NHER 50305).
See (S1).
J. Allen (NLA), May 2007.