Description

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SP5858
19/2 Gate Cottage
- II
Cottage. C18, remodelled in Gothick style late C18/early C19. Coursed squared
ironstone, asbestos tile roof, brick end stacks. One-unit plan. 2-storey,
one-window range. Plank door with timber lintel in single-storey wing to left
with lean-to slate roof. Symmetrical wing to right side has blocked door with
timber lintel. Gabled centre has 2-light casement windows to ground and first
floors with pointed arch heads, and frames imitating Y-tracery. Later
single-storey extension to rear. Interior has open fireplace with chamfered
bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam. Formerly the gate-keeper cottage for
gate to lane which runs past front of cottage. The post from which the gate hung
still survives on opposite side of road.

Listing NGR: SP5634258966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26338262

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