Description

STATION ROAD
ST 88 SW
(West side)
7/17

GV Portcullis Cottage
II

The description shall be amended to read

Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" but mid C18 in character with mid-
late C20 addition and alterations. Coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings;
roof of Cotswold stone slates to front, double-roman clay tiles to rear and
addition. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays, with rear outshut and added rear
wing (not of special interest). Quoins. Paired doorways to centre, left one
in C20 trellised porch, right one now a window. All windows of 2 lights
with leaded casements, the original windows with chamfered mullions and
surrounds, and dripstones. Raised lozenge datestone to centre of 1st floor.
Shaped kneelers, coping, and corniced stacks to gables. Rear: catslide
roof to outshut. Returns: each has an original attic window with dripstone,
and an inserted window in outshut; quoins at rear angle indicate that
originally the outshut was lower.

Interior: three wooden winder staircases; elm floorboards; original roof timbers.

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ACTON TURVILLE C.P. STATION ROAD
ST 88 SW
(west side)
7/17 Portcullis Cottage

G.V. II
Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" on lozenge in centre of first
floor. Coursed rubble; Cotswold stone slate roof on ground floor, 2 windows
on first floor. 2-light casement windows with lead cames, in chamfered
mullions and surrounds. Door off-centre to left under C20th porch; blocked
doorway to right, now a window.

Listing NGR: ST8087381120

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26448430

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