Description

ROTHBURY TOWN FOOT
NU OO SE
(North side)
17/304 Armstrong Cottages
(Nos. 1-12
consecutive)
GV II

Almshouses, dated 1896. Rock-faced stone; red clay tile roofs. Ranges around
rectangular garden open to south, with 6 cottages to rear and 3 on each side.
Single storey; each house 2 bays, one projecting and gabled with a pent wooden
side porch; larger gabled projection at centre of north range. Porches each
have central segmental arch, flanked by narrow round arches on turned shafts,
enclosing 4-panel doors. 2- and 3-light mullioned windows in chamfered
surrounds, holding sashes. Moulded bargeboards and braced pendants; in centre
gable of north range is inscribed tablet 'Erected by WILLIAM GEORGE BARON
ARMSTRONG of Cragside in Memory of ANNE ARMSTRONG HIS MUCH LOVED MOTHER
MDCCCXCVI' Gable ends of side ranges each have plain raised tablet set
between 2 windows. Decorated tile ridge cresting; gable finials; stepped-and-
corniced ridge stacks with half-round pilaster on each face.

Listing NGR: NU0606401828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570780

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990