TQ 74 SE MARDEN THORN ROAD (south-west side) 4/122 Thorn Cottage (formerly listed as Thorn Farm Cottage) 23.5.67 II House. Mid C16, with late C16 or early C17 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick. Banded plain and fishscale tiles to first floor to left of stack. First floor under and to right of stack with exposed framing and plaster infilling. Tarred weatherboarding to rear. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, floored, with narrow fifth bay to left end. 2 storeys. Broadly-spaced studding with arch braces to right end bay. Narrow left end bay apparently roofed as lean-to against higher gable of rest of house. Roof gabled to right with exposed plain crown post with two foot- braces, and with wall-plates jettied to carry one further rafter couple with collar-purlin extended under collar. Brick ridge stack to right end of second bay from right. Irregular fenestration of 3 small wooden casements; one three-light towards left, one two-light towards centre and one two-light to right. Shallow late C16 or early C17 eight-light chamfered mullioned and transomed oriel window to right gable end of each floor, that to first floor on shaped brackets, that to ground floor on painted brick plinth, both with two-light frieze- windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. Ribbed door under small open porch to left gable end. Short rear lean-to to left (with brick in rat-trap bond), and another towards right end. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Chamfered axial beams and unchamfered joists to ground-floor rooms. Evidence for full-height partition to truss to left of stack. Unsooted roof with plain crown posts with foot braces, and lapped collars. Broad C17 brick stack. Listing NGR: TQ7591243064