Survey Data
Reg No
14819290
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
205739, 205685
Date Recorded
07/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with return to rear. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards with finial to gable end and dormer attic window, lean-to roof to return. Render removed from façade to reveal random coursed limestone wall. Roughcast rendered to side and rear elevations. Timber sash windows with yellow brick flat-arched openings and tooled stone sills, circular pivot window with yellow brick surround to attic. Square-headed door opening with yellow brick flat arch, timber battened half-door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by low hedge.
Appraisal
This attractive cottage forms part of a pair with its neighbouring building, and part of a group of similar structures all built as part of a nineteenth-century scheme that won a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal for their design in the 1870s. The handsome appearance of the cottage is achieved by its ornate detailing seen in decorative bargeboards, timber sash windows and decorative pivot window.