TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE 5/245 Orchard Cottage II Cottage. Early/mid C17, refurbished and enlarged circa 1970. Timber-framed, the ground floor level is underbuilt with C20 brick and the first floor is hung with peg-tile; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof. Plan: Now an L-plan house. The front block faces east and has a 2-room plan, one each side of the central entrance hall. One-room plan rear block projects to rear of right end. This layout is essentially the result of the circa 1970 refurbishment. The C17 part is confined to the single room at the left (north) end of the front block. The original house was essentially a one-room plan cottage with a stack on its south end (now an axial stack) and with an integral service lean-to outshot that end. A photograph of circa 1952 in the National Monuments Records shows the cottage in its C17 form before it was extended. 2 storeys. Exterior: Nearly symmetrical front with 4 ground floor windows and 3 first floor windows, all C20 casements with glazing bars. Central front doorway contains C20 studded plank door behind contemporary gabled porch. This is the C20 doorway. The original was sited at the left end. Roof is hipped both ends. Interior: The carpentry of the C17 cottage is well-preserved. The ground floor room has a chamfered crossbeam with one step stop. Relined brick fireplace has an oak lintel which is cut back on the soffit but still shows part of the chamfer with scroll stops. Similar crossbeam on the first floor. Roof of 2 uneven bays of tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins and diminished principals. The larger bay has straight principals and an intermediate A-frame truss. Orchard Cottage was presumably associated with nearby Tattingbury Farmhouse (q.v.). It is an interesting survival of a very small C17 house. Listing NGR: TQ6383244834