Description

EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON
SS 71 SE
8/32 Church Cottage, Middle Cottage
20.2.67 and Lower Cottage
GV II
Row of 3 cottages, perhaps the rearrangement of church house. Late C16 or C17 with
later alteration and extension. Rubble and cob, some render; straw-thatched
gabled roofs.
Plan: long range of 1:3:1 rooms, centre room built forward, through-passage way to
churchyard between left and centre room; 2 end rooms with gable end brick stacks,
left with oven, centre room with axial brick stack also with an oven.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 2:2:2 windows, centre projects 2-light C19 casements with
glazing bars. Door opening to each cottage, with a C20 door to Church Cottage to
left in a lean-to outshut on front, Middle Cottage to centre with a thatched pent
porch; Lower Cottage to right with slated pent porch. Middle Cottage with
projecting C18 wrought-iron lamp bracket with scrolling and lamp holder. Through-
passageway to right of Church Cottage leading to the churchyard of Church of St Mary
(q.v.), semi-circular head, rubble surround, C18 ornamental iron gate with spear
capping; pitched stone pavement; at rear end a 3-barred old wooden stile; over the
passageway 2 chamfered and stepped-stopped beams, that to rear with later brackets
on stone corbels. Rear elevation of cottages facing onto churchyard of Church of St
Mary, 3 small C19 casements; lean-to-with slate roof.
Interior: Middle Cottage with fireplace with a wooden bressumer; Lower Cottage with
an exposed truss of a jointed cruck showing on the outside at first floor level;
remainder of interiors not seen. It is thought that the building may once have been
a church house, although there is no direct evidence for this.
Roof: not fully seen.

Listing NGR: SS7697513475

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611032

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas