Little
Thatches / Old Forge Cottage
Definition of Terms Used
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Bolection The projecting part of the moulding that surrounds a panel (or similar)
Bressummer A beam or girder over an opening, and supporting a wall.
Chamfered With the angles of the edge cut off or rounded off. A bevelled edge.
Mullion Upright division between window panes, especially of stone.
Ogee A moulding with an S-shaped section. Also described as an arch of double curvature - first convex then concave.
Palladian After the style of Andrea Palladio - a 16th century Italian architect.
Pilaster Rectangluar pillar, projecting from and supporting a wall.
Class I Two ground-floor rooms with a central chimneystack against which there is a lobby entrance, and often a stair. Thought to also be known as a "two-unit baffle entry".
Description
These two adjoining cottages,
formerly divided into four dwellings, are two-storeyed and have timber-framed
walls set on rubble plinths, and thatched roofs. Built in the late 16th
century (current occupier believes 1560, possibly by "well-to-do merchant").
Inside, chamfered beams are exposed. An open fireplace has stone jambs and
a cambered timber lintel. Mr Titt was a blacksmith occupying Old Forge Cottage
with about 8 children until the 1920s. Owned by the Thomas / Maidment Trust
in the middle of the 20th century, returning to private ownership in 1978.
This is a non-profit site maintained on an entirely
voluntary basis by residents of the village
