Survey Data
Reg No
41401701
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1905 - 1915
Coordinates
251613, 324783
Date Recorded
24/05/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey labourer's cottage, built c.1910, with loft storey. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber eaves course. Harl-rendered walls, having render plinth course and painted brick block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings, with render surrounds and painted masonry sills, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and with one fixed window to front elevation. Square-headed door opening to front, having render surround and timber door, opening onto stone step. Single-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers and rendered wall to front.
Appraisal
This modest but well-presented house retains much of its original form and fabric, and is typical of those built under the Labourers' Acts from 1883 to 1919, to replace the one-room cabins which were then common, and to provide quality accommodation for rural workers. Simple in form, but with a high standard of construction, it is enlivened by red brick quoins and timber sliding sash windows, the retention of the latter adding to its architectural integrity. This example of labourers' housing is unusually intact.