Building record 1142000000 - CANDLE COTTAGE, 8 POUND STREET

Grade II. Cottage, continuous with No.6 [CAS 11319], 2 bays of 4 bay C15 cruck building, altered C17, timber framed with colourwashed brick infill and ground storey. Old tiled roof, brick chimney at RH end and another at LH shared with No. 10 [CAS 11421]. 2 gabled eaves dormers. 1 1/2 storeys, 3-light leaded casement to LH of ground floor, projecting bay to RH with tiled pentice roof, 5-light leaded casement returning on LH flank with 1-light, C20 half glazed door to RH. Party wall with No.6 exposed in through-passage has rubble clunch base of chimney stack. Gabled rear wing. Interior 2 exposed cruck trusses similar to those at No.6, but with attached principal rafters on spurs and original purlins with one curved windbrace. RCHM I.p.306. MON.3 (B1).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in March 1989 suggest the building was constructed as a four-bay hall house probably in the early sixteenth century. Only the north-east bays (bays 1, 2 and part of 3) comprising no. 6 Pound Lane, were available for study. The original plan is not clear, but bay 2 is floored with lodged joists running axially, which are probably original. The house is likely to have had an open hall in bays 3 and 4 (now contained within no. 8), and perhaps a service
room in bay 1. All the crucks in No 6 have truncated blades (type ‘W’ apexes). Probably during the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, the property was divided into two, and two chimney stacks inserted into no. 6. The timbers sampled from No 6 could not be dated. Two samples, the rear cruck of T1, and the purlin above, matched to form a sequence of 71 rings. However, neither this nor the longer individual samples, could be matched against the master reference chronologies. See report for detail (B2).