Building record 1010700000 - BEVERLEY COTTAGE, 34 WESTBROOK END

Grade II. House. C15, altered and extended to left C17, extended to right late C17-early C18. Colourwashed roughcast over timber frame with frame exposed in right-hand bay and left gable. 3 cruck trusses to centre bays. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Brick chimneys to left and centre. 1½ storeys, 4 bays. Irregular C20 leaded casements, 2 windows to first floor in thatch. Left-hand bay has C20 lean-to projection with tiled roof and half-glazed door below thatched hood in right side. Right-hand bay has no windows. RCHM II p 218 MON 30 (B1).
Additional source (B2).
Dendro-dating of the cruck frame gives a felling date of 1492 (B3).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in October 1990 suggest the building was constructed as a three-bay hall house using timber with a felling date of spring or early summer 1492. The hall in bays 1 and 2 was spanned by an arch-braced truss with mantel beam, and a chamber was in bay 3. Three cruck trusses remain, the apeces of T1 and T3 could not be seen above the collar, whilst T2 is the open mantel beam truss, which still shows the compass setting out arcs for the braces. Probably in the sixteenth century, a smoke hood was constructed against the open, mantel beam truss (T2) and a floor was inserted into bay 2 and probably bay 3. The chamber end (bay 3) of the house was rebuilt, probably in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century, judging by the style of the framing, and appears to have involved the total demolition of the original south end of the house. Bay 1 was floored over at this date, while the earlier flooring of bay 3 was retained in the new chamber bay. Fireplaces were built on either side of T2, but the original smoke-hood lintel was retained. The last substantial extension was to the north where a single storey extension was built in the early 19th century, again dated from the scantling of the timber frame. See report for detail (B4).