Description

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SO85NW
620-1/1/52

WORCESTER
BILFORD ROAD (south side)
Perdiswell Cottage

(Formerly listed as No.10 Perdiswell Cottage, previously listed as: BILFORD ROAD Perdiswell Cottage)

05/02/73

II
House. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations. Brick under plain clay tile roof, painted stone sills. Three ridge stacks with oversailing detail and pots.

Plan: simple rectangular, one room deep, later abutting wings at right-angles to give L-shaped plan. Asymmetric elevation. Single storey with attic. Four attic windows, three half dormers, one full dormer, all with two/two sashes. Further sash windows to ground-floor, six/six, eight/eight, and eight/twelve; all near-flush under cambered brick arches with sills. Five-panel door, bottom pair of panels flush-beaded, centre and upper panes raised and fielded, matching panelled reveals, moulded architrave, later gabled porch. Further C20 part-glazed door to extreme left of elevation.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317163

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)