Description

TL 1243 OLD WARDEN HIGH STREET (West Side)

12/153 No.41 (The Thatched House)
22.10.70

GV II

Shuttleworth Estate cottage. Earlier C19, possibly encasing an earlier
building. Cottage ornee style. Colourwashed roughcast over timber frame.
Thatched roof. 2-room plan, one storey and attics. Ground floor has 2 canted
bay windows with hexagonal leading, twigwork decoration to sills and cornices,
and semi-pyramidal roofs. Attic has 2 eyebrow dormers with semi-circular
casements which have radiating glazing bars. Central doorway now blocked.
Central stuccoed ridge stack with spiralling moulded decoration. Highly
decorated pierced bargeboards continue around eaves of front and rear
elevations, returning around dormer eaves. Gable ends each have attic window
of 3 pointed-arched leaded lights under square head, with square moulded
label. Below each is doorway within rustic open porch with gabled thatched
hood.

Listing NGR: TL1365843732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516814

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)