Building record 1160100000 - MELBURY COTTAGE, 53 HIGH STREET

Grade II. House. C17, altered. Right side has timber frame with some close studding and rendered and colourwashed infill. Front rebuilt in brick, rendered and colourwashed. Old tile roofs. Brick chimney to far gable of right side. L-plan with C19 bay in rear angle. Range to front is of 2 storeys and attic and 2 bays. C20 3-light leaded casements with segmental heads. Right gable has old 3-light casement with diamond leading to first floor, single C20 leaded light to attic, and C20 door to right. Lower 2-storey bay at right-angles to rear has old 5-light diamond leaded casements to first floor, and small canted bay window with flanking single lights and C20 leaded glazing below. Small boarded opening to far right. RCHM II p. 328 Mon.ll (B1).
Watching brief carried out in June 2019 by KDK Archaeology during repairs to the NE corner of the building recorded evidence that the timber frame of the north gable had been close studded throughout and provided details of the brick in-fill and rubblestone plinth. Historic building recording of the interior of the building suggests that the original 17th century structure was a single bay cottage with a ladder giving access to the first floor, possible extended to the south later in the 17th or in the 18th century, with a north rear wing added in the late 17th or 18th century and a SW rear wing added in the 19th century. See report for detail (B2).