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Summary

Grade II listed building formed of a late 16th-17th century timber framed cottage with a 19th century attached house on the front

Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1313009: CLAREVILLE COTTAGE AND GULLY COTTAGE

Other Statuses and Cross-References

• Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 03939.04.000
  

Monument Type(s):

• HALL HOUSE? (16th century to 17th century - 1551 AD to 1700 AD)
• SEMI DETACHED HOUSE (16th century to Late 19th century - 1551 AD to 1900 AD)
• TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th century to 17th century - 1551 AD to 1700 AD)
• SEMI DETACHED HOUSE (18th - 19th century - 1701 AD? to 1900 AD)

Full Description

Gully Cottage and Clareville Cottage are attached dwellings in the ribbon settlement of Hamstead Marshall. They are of brick and rendered brick with tiled roofs. Together they are a Grade II listed building, described as forming a T plan with the 19th century build of Clareville Cottage (also 18 Hamstead Marshall) forming crosspiece and Gully Cottage (17) forming a long tailpiece <1>. Although Gully Cottage appears to be older, both parts contain historic fabric.

Gully Cottage is timber-framed, of two bays, with a possible 17th century flooring of a 16th century hall. A large chimney forms the junction of the two houses and there are some smoked-blackened timbers in the roof of the central section. The winding stair in Clareville Cottage is described as partially 17th century, with some evidence of this replacing a former third bay of framing. The roadside frontage of Clareville Cottage is of two storeys with an attic with dormer windows and flanking chimneys <1>.

The First Edition Ordnance Survey mapping <2> shows the property in a plot divided into western and eastern halves, although only a small range extending from Clareville Cottage is in the western half, and Clareville Cottage itself is also subdivided. Clareville Cottage has also had the name Hayseed Hollow, and been known as The High House <3>.

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