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Summary

Tavy Cottage in Bow was once part of a larger 16C house of cob under a thatch roof with later improvements

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS70SW/98
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COTTAGE NON SPECIFIC (XVI to XXI - 1501 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1986, Bow, 14 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV55706.

Tavy Cottage on the south side of the main road in Bow. A house, once part of a larger house, probably early 16C with 17C and late 17C-early 18C improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with 20C brick tops; thatch roof. 2-room and central through passage plan house facing north with axial stack in party wall to left (east) and end stack to right (west) end. It is thought to occupy the hall and inner room of an early passage and service room now divided off as Godfrey's Cottage (see PRN 38238). 2 storeys. Irregular front with 3 ground floor and 2 first floor windows, all 20C casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass and 20C external shutters. C20 4-panel front door right of centre. Roof is gable-ended to right and continuous with adjoining Godfrey's Cottage to left. Good interior: the through passage probably dates from 17C or 18C subdivision of early 16C house. To hall on left side is a full height cob crosswall. Hall has original early 16C roof structure. It is 2 bays with a side-pegged jointed cruck truss and small curving windbraces to purlins. Roof is smoke-blackened indicating that the original hall at least was open to the roof and served by an open hearth fire. Roof over putative inner room inaccessible. The hall was given rubble fireplace with plain oak lintel probably in late 16C or early 17C. It was floored in early-mid 17C with chamfered and scroll stopped crossbeam. Newel stair alcove to right of fireplace was rebuilt in 19C but still has a late 17C-early 18C plank door with applied 2-panel front with strap hinges. In front wall is small 18C cupboard with its panelled door on h-hinges. The panel is now glass. In right room an early 17C axial beam is chamfered with 1 surviving late step stop. Fireplace here is blocked.

Sources / Further Reading

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