Description

ELMESTHORPE STATION ROAD
SP 49 NE (north east side)

1/26 Nos.1-6 Wortley
Cottages inclusive
19/1/1970
II

6 cottages. Built in 1896 to the designs of C F A Voysey for
Lord Lovelace of Kirkby Mallory. Brick, roughcast and
whitewashed, with hipped Swithland slate roof. At each end of
the front,a diagonal buttress. 6 roughcast stacks, those at the
ends external. 2 storeys, 6 bays. The row is designed to appear
as 3 symmetrical pairs. At the front, each pair has a central
hipped porch with a 6 light leaded casement and a door in each
side, 4 of these being the original close-boarded doors with
decorative hinges. The central 4 mainly retain the original
fenestration with single 4 light casements on each floor, those
to the first floor with leaded glazing. No.1, to the left, has a
3 light C20 casement on each floor. No.6, to the right, has a
C20 glazing bar casement on each floor. At the rear, each pair
has a hipped outbuilding and several late C20 additions. Above,
a continuous 6 light strip casement. Nos. 4 and 5 have altered
glazing.

Listing NGR: SP4696696013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472560

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)