Description

WITHERIDGE THE SQUARE (west side)
SS 81 SW Witheridge
9/93 No 7 Black Dog Cottage
20.2.67
GV II
House, part now divided to form separate dwelling known as Wheelwrights Cottage
(q.v.). Perhaps C15, floored C16, C18 and C19 internal refitting and external
refenstration. Rendered, colour-washed, straw-thatched roof with end gables, the
corner of the building to the left is radiused including the thatched roof,
colourwashed.
Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan, probably later with the
through-passage removed, later used as an inn with what was probably the upper end
room to the right used as a parlour.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 3 windows, small C19 casements with glazing bars. 2 door
openings, to left with a very shallow lean-to porch with slate roof. Further door
opening to right, both with plank doors.
Interior: parlour to right with a very fine inserted C18 corner fireplace in a
bolection-moulded wooden surround, fitted settles with panelled backs to each side,
adjacent in this room a C18 fitted dresser. Chamfered ceiling beams on ground
floor.
The first floor and the roof were not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS8033414486

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26466447

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)