Building record 1301200000 - HORSESHOE COTTAGE, ASKETT

Grade II. House. C15, altered and extended C17, early C19 and C20. Exterior walls rebuilt in brick early C19, with some flint to rear. Rear walls whitewashed. Left gable has some weatherboard cladding. Old tile roof, half-hipped to left, brick chimney between right bays. One storey and attic, 3 bays. Wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars: 2 3-light and 2 2-light to ground floor, one in blocked doorway between left bays, all with segmental heads; 2-light gabled eaves-line dormers in left bays. C20 gabled brick porch between right bays. C20 2-storey brick extension to rear, Interior: left bay has flanking cruck trusses, original purlins, curved wind-braces and heavy floor joists; stop-chamfered spine beam in centre bay (B1).
Domestic use. 2 cruck trusses survive, blades held by a saddle carrying a short king-post. Building also contains a basecruck. Information from G.M.Beresford (B2).