Cottage. Mid C18, altered mid C19 and C20. (1)
The listing for Home Farm Cottage describes it as now having the appearance of an
eighteenth- or nineteenth-century building incorporating earlier timber framing. Tree-ring
dating now shows that this framing is indeed likely to be primary, with this element of the
structure having its origins in the early- to mid-fourteenth century. Given the conditions of
the time, this probably means that it was built before the Black Death rather than after it,
ie before AD 1350. From the timbers available, a total of 16 oak samples was obtained by coring and 11 were used for dating. The dating of the change of the house to its present appearance is inconclusive. At least one timber dates to the later sixteenth century, while another dates to the first half of the seventeenth century. It is possible that these two timbers do represent two distinct
periods of work undertaken at these dates, but it is also possible that they were salvaged
and reused in still later episodes of development. (2)

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<2> Historic England, 2015, Home Farm Cottage Westhorpe Southwell [Timber Dating Analysis Report] (Unpublished document). SNT5219.