Listed Building: MANOR COTTAGE (285386)

BAWDSEY THE STREET TM 34 SW (West Side) 10/23 Manor Cottage G.V. II House. C15 with C17, C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber framed, red brick, plain tiled roof, originally thatched. Remains of open hall, now divided into 2-storeys with later 2 storey wing. The eastern end of the hall has been curtailed. Entrance front: C18 Flemish bond walling. to the centre of the ground floor is a C20 lean-to half-glazed outshut masking 2 doorways, that at right a C19 stable door with cambered head and a plank door at left, also with cambered head possibly in line with the former screens passage. To left is a 2-light C20 casement window with cambered head to either side of which is rendered walling. To far right is a similar 2-light window and to the first floor two 2-light windows at right and left and the single-light casement at centre. Massive wall plate to the top of the wall. Right-hand gable end has a C20 single-storey service addition at ground floor left with flat roof and a gable chimney stack with 2 flues above. The left hand gable end has a massive chimney stack at right of centre of brick with offsets. The rear is rendered and colourwashed and has a C19 casement window and to the first floor at left and right 2-light casement windows and a single light to the centre. Interior: chamfered C17 beams to the ground floor rooms and one C18 four- panel door with strap hinges. The stairwell has timber framed walls and uneven, steep steps, probably of C17 date. The central hall truss, now divided between 2 bedrooms has a cambered tie beam with double chamfer and bird beak decoration to its underside and a crown post, the lower end of which is partially embedded in a dividing wall and the upper portion of which is in a loft above an inserted ceiling. This is octagonal and has a moulded (partially mutilated) base and a brattished and moulded cap. Four arched braces spring from this to the collar and collar purlin. Close studding dividing wall to west of this with wattle and daub infill and having a further arched brace supporting the collar purlin. the eastern end of the hall has been partially demolished. Heavy common rafters throughout the roof joined by collars. One, planted, later arched brace to the central truss. Listing NGR: TM3467940056