Description

BICKLEY C.P. BICKLEY TOWN
SJ 54 NW
3/8 Nos.1 and 2, Bickley
Town Cottages, with
store sheds at rear.
II
Farmhouse (Bickley Town) early C17, divided into 2 cottages probably
mid C19, of brick-nogged oak small framing with narrow panels and
large timbers, much replaced in brick (painted as framing). Tiled
roof of steep pitch, formerly thatched. 2-storeys. Each cottage has
a boarded door in open porch with gabled slate roof on brackets and a
1-storey canted lattice bay window with hipped slate roof, with a
gabled half-dormer lattice casement above (bargeboards and finials);
No.1 has a narrow staircase lattice window at centre of front;
lattice casements in end gables. The lattice windows are of cast
iron. Projecting brick chimney on each gable; central ridge chimney.
Each cottage has a 1-storey gabled shed at rear, mid C19, of brick
painted as framing; that to No.1 has a slate roof, that to No.2 is
replaced in corrugated asbestos. The sheds appear to have been built
as small farm buildings in the mid C19 when the Marquess of
Cholmondeley was active in the movement to give plots of land to farm
workers.
Interior: No.2 has 2 large chamfered oak beams. Plans altered mid
C19.

Listing NGR: SJ5308648606

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q62131293

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