Building record 0491700000 - ABBOT'S COTTAGE AND ABBOT'S LODGE, 2 AND 3 MAIN STREET

Plan Form - Rectangular.
Terrier October 1607: 'The vicarage house built of timber & thatcht, consisting of 3 bays chambered over & boarded; a barn of 2 bays thatchd' (B1).
The old vicarage dates from the C16 & is now divided into 2 tenements (B2).
The Old Vicarage, now two tenements, was built on a rectangular plan, probably late in the 16th century. In front and at the back some of the brick is original and set in herringbone pattern. The wall at the W end is partly of stone. At the back are two small windows in original frames; one of the windows is now blocked. The central chimney stack is original. Interior:- On the ground floor, one room has a stop-chamfered ceiling-beam, and a large fireplace with a moulded lintelwhich has moulded stops; in another room a ceiling-beam also has moulded stops. The plain oak staircase is old. Condition-Good. (B3 ).
At NGR (B5). (Later vicarage at SP7204 3098).
Grade II. House, now pair of cottages. C17. Timber framed with whitewashed brick infill, some herringbone. Whitewashed rubble stone and brick to left gable. Thatch roof, brick stacks to right gable and between left-hand bays. One-and-a-half storeys, three bays. C19 3-light casements to left-hand bay and windows in thatch, paired barred casements to ground floor right-hand bays. Board doors to left and left of centre, the latter with single casement adjoining to left. RCHM II p 234 MON 3 (B4).