Description

SU 16 NW
9/128
9.1.80

WEST OVERTON
CHURCH HILL
(west side)
No 74, Verger's Cottage, and No 75
(Formerly listed as Nos 74 and 75)

GV
II

Two cottages at right angles. C17 and 1746. Sarsen blocks,
repaired and heightened in brick, thatched roof. No 75 comprises
end bay extension of Verger's Cottage and a 1-bay forward extension
to road. Verger's Cottage is of 3 bays, single-storey and attic,
raised to 2 storeys in 1746 (on datestone), and part of front
rebuilt. Central boarded door with thatched canopy. Timber paned
casement windows and brick dentilled eaves. Rebuilt stack at
junction of extension now part of No 75. Projecting oven at rear.
Gable end of extension underbuilt in C20, and above, exposed timber
framed truss and half hipped roof. Awaiting renovation March 1986.

Listing NGR: SU1341268139

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477997

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)