Description

SW 73 NW STITHIANS HENDRA

2/254 Hendra Cottage and Mabel's Cottage
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GV II

Pair of cottages, possibly originally 1 house. Datestone inscribed: NME 1718 on
stone chimney. Granite rubble walls with granite moorstone dressings. Left-hand
cottage (Hendra Cottage) has grouted scantle slate roof sweeping lower at rear. C18
crested clay ridge tiles and cast-iron ogee-section gutter, the other cottage roof is
replaced with asbestos slate. External stone stack with brick chimney over the
right-hand gable end.
Plan: Present plan is probably a C19 remodelling and extension of the original plan.
Double depth plan with large room at the front of each cottage and entrances towards
the middle. Service rooms in old rear outshut behind Hendra Cottage and in C20
remodelled former outshut behind Mabel's Cottage.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall fairly regular 4 window north front with 2 doorways
towards the middle. Hendra cottage has C20 door and circa mid C19 12-pane hornless
sashes (also unspoiled at rear). Mabels cottage has wide opening with adjoining
doorway and window. C20 door and C20 12-pane sashes. The chimney is inscribed on
its right-hand (gable) side.
Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7294337145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434871

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)