Description

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD
HURSTWOOD
3/49 Ivy Cottage
1.4.1953
GV II

Perhaps stable, now cottage. Probably late C16; altered. Coursed squared
sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof with stone gable coping. Small
rectangular plan of 2 unequal bays. Two storeys; north gable (to road) has
large chimney corbelled from 1st floor, with offsets near the apex. East
front has chamfered doorway at rear left end, inserted doorway in centre,
small single-storey gabled addition in front of right hand end; at 1st
floor, a small chamfered light near the left end, and in the 2nd bay 2
deeply-recessed mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hollow
spandrels. South gable has a similar 3-light window at 1st floor a small
chamfered light at ground floor. Rear has 4 regularly-spaced chamfered
single-light windows at 1st floor and at ground floor 2 square headed
mullioned windows (3 + 2 lights) and an altered or inserted firewindow, all
of which may be insertions. Interior: chamfered beams on moulded stone
corbels. Note: external features suggest that building was originally
designed for habitation only at 1st floor, the ground floor subsequently
adopted.

Listing NGR: SD8807831334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569697

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