Description

OWSTON OWSTON VILLAGE
SE 51 SE
10/116 Garden Cottage and
5.6.68 Home Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
Garden Cottage)
GV II
Pair of houses. Mid C17, partly altered and with C20 addition. Rubble
magnesian limestone, Welsh slate roof. T-shaped plan with Garden Cottage in
cross wing on left; 2 storeys, 1 : 3 window to 1st floor. Chamfered plinth,
large quoins. Garden Cottage (entered from left return) has original double-
chamfered and transomed front windows, that to ground floor of 5-lights
beneath dripcourse, lst-floor window of 3 lights with dripstone.
Home Farmhouse, set back on right, has C20 casements of 3, 2 and 4 lights to
each floor. Shaped kneelers and roll-moulded gable copings; tall C19 ridge
stack to Garden Cottage has chamfered plinth and cornice; rendered ridge
stack to Home Farmhouse. Rear: cross-wing gable has altered ground-floor
openings and inserted lst-floor door between and beneath original single-
light windows; gable copings with apex finial. Left return: restored
3-light mullioned windows on both floors to left; central door with dripstone
and gabled canopy; 1-light and 3-light windows with dripstones to lst-floor
right. Front-right return of cross-wing; original 4-light ground-floor
window as front; remains of 3-light window over, 1-light window on right.

Interior: garden Cottage has resited chamfered, ashlar fireplace in front
room and 2 similar fireplaces to 1st floor. Garden Cottage formerly had
gable crosses and was called Priory Cottage indicating a direct association
with the Church of All Saints (q.v.) situated opposite.

Listing NGR: SE5504011183

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444277

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)