Description

TL 0588
18/8

ASHTON
ASHTON GREEN
Vine Cottage and Thatchers Cottage

GV
II

House, now 2 dwellings. Datestones 1659 and SG 1730 remodelled early C20 for
Charles Rothschild by W. Hackvale. Squared coursed limestone with thatch roof.
Originally 3-unit plan. Single storey with attic. 3 window range of early C20
three-light stone mullion windows, those to attic are under eyebrow dormers. C20
doors, to left and right of centre, are under artificial stone lintels. Ashlar
gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks, with moulded cornices. Datestone
1730 above doorway to Vine Cottage has moulded cornice; datestone 1650 above
window to left. Fire insurance plaque to right of doorway. C19 wing to rear
remodelled early C20. Interiors not inspected, but Thatchers Cottage noted as
having an open fireplace with bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beams.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p18)

Listing NGR: TL0572688275

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26292085

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)