Description

COLEBROOKE
SX 79 NE
5/80
- Preston Cottage

- II

House, formerly small farmhouse. C18, modernised circa 1970. Plastered cob on
rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof.
2-room, lobby entrance plan house facing south-east with probably secondary outshot
on left (south-west) end. Right room has projecting end stack and left room has
axial stack. C20 service extension to rear. 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window front,
all circa 1970 casements with glazing bars including outshot window. First floor
windows have low curving eyebrows over. Roughly central doorway now with C20 door
and porch, latter with hipped, thatch roof. Roof is gable-ended to right and
hipped to left running continuously down over outshot.
Interior : shows plain carpentry detail where exposed. The beams are roughly
finished. Roof not inspected.
Shown as Prestons on O.S map.

Listing NGR: SX7530499201

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592600

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)