Description

OVERBURY CP -
SO 9437 - 9537
9/108 The Brake Cottage
- II

Former engine and dynamo house, now house. 1898 by Richard Norman Shaw
for Robert Martin, and altered mid-C20. Coursed limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings, half-hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Rectangular
four-bay plan. Single storey and attic. West front elevation: two 4-light
chamfered mullioned ground floor windows with leaded casements; outer bays
have large timber lintels and beneath the left one is a 2-light casement and
a half-glazed door and beneath the right one a half-glazed panel and half-
glazed door (these are all mid-C20 insertions). At each end is a 5-light
chamfered mullioned attic window and on the half-hipped part of the roof is
a gabled louvred ventilation opening. There is a lean-to at the south gable
end with a 2-light casement and half-glazed door in its west side. Original
lean-to shed on cast iron posts and brackets with corrugated iron roof adjoins
rear elevation. (Saint, A: Richard Norman Shaw, London, 1976).

Listing NGR: SO9557637266

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26357116

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)