Description

SW 52 NE BREAGE TREVURVAS LANE

6/87 The Thatched Cottage, associated
buildings, ruins and garden walls

GV II

Small house, outbuilding, adjoining ruins and garden walls. Circa early C18.
Granite moorstone rubble with selected and partly dressed quoins, jambstones and
lintels. Corrugated asbestos roof (formerly thatched) with original granite chimney
over left hand gable end and later brick chimney over right hand gable end.
Two room plan with cross passage between. The right hand room is wider, presumably
originally the hall/kitchen old lean to at rear right and small C20 addition at rear
left. Small single storey single-cell outbuilding possibly a stable adjoins at right
anglesito the left hand side of the front. Extensive ruins of former building adjoin
at: the left hand front corner of the house.
Two storeys with 1st floor rooms partly in the roof space. Nearly symmetrical 3
window roughly south front with central doorway, now with C20 window. The other
windows are 4-pane horned sashes, those to the 1st floor in heightened openings.
Interior not inspected.
The garden wall is painted granite rubble and with the small outbuilding, encloses a
shallow rectangular garden. The gateway aligns with the original doorway of the
house. In front of the wall is a cobbled pavement.
The ruin at the left hand side of the house, and the stone and earth hedge fronting
the road, enclose another rectangular area.

Listing NGR: SW5865528327

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453274

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)