Building record 1136600000 - STURRICK HOUSE AND CHERRY COTTAGE, 26A & 28 AYLESBURY ROAD

Grade II. House and attached cottage. C16 altered, Timber frame with painted roughcast to upper part, painted brick to under-built ground floor. Old tile roof half hipped to RH, 2 storeys, the upper one formerly over- sailing. Two 3-light and two 2-light leaded casements to 1st floor. C19 1/2-glazed door to LH of centre with 2 sash windows in flush frames each side. Wide carriage way with wooden doors to RH of centre, with heavy moulded bracket to RH side. Modern door and small window in RH part now formed into separate cottage. Rear elevation: C17 timber framed 2-storey wing with brick infill, old tiled roof, sash window to 1st floor, modern glazed doors below. Chimney stack to RH flank, 1-storey outshot on right with catslide tiled roof, modern casement. Lean- to roofed cellar outshot on extreme right, 2-light casement above. Interior Ground floor RH room has two richly moulded ceiling beams and large inglenook with moulded beam in form of shallow Tudor arch. LH room has altered inglenook, exposed beams, including close-studding to rear wall. 1st floor has more close-studding and large tiebeams exposed. Rear wing has reused C17 oak run-through panelling on both floors. RCHM I p.310. MON. 38 (B1).
List of documentary evidence. Formerly Black Swan, New Inn and Temperance Hotel (B2).


The Temperance Hotel is of two storeys. The front is plaster- covered and has a large covered gateway at the East end. The other walls are of timber and brick, and the roofs are tiled. It was probabl built in the mid C16th and was a central chimney type. A SE wing was added early in the C17th, making an L-shaped plan, and there are modern additions at the rear. Condition - Fairly good (B3).

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