Description

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SX 47 NW
10/207

MILTON ABBOT
Leigh Ball Cottages

GV
II
Pair of cottages. Circa 1910 for the Bedford Estate and associated with the entrance to Endsleigh House (qv). Dressed stone rubble with stone dressings to the front, brick to the rear. Gabled slate roofs with rendered stacks on the ridge, ornamental slate hanging in the gables. Two symmetrical adjoining cottages with Picturesque details which are probably intended to harmonise with Endsleigh Lodge No.1 at the entrance to Wyatvilles Endsleigh House about 150 metres north east.

The cottages have side entrances with rustic porches with slate roofs carried on a timber post, a chamfered string course, deep eaves with bargeboards and two gables to the front, and two gables to the sides, the rear side gable being slightly advanced. Front and side windows throughout have cast iron diamond panes. Two storeys. Two window symmetrical front with two ground floor canted bay windows with casements with high transoms in chamfered stone architraves. Two first floor two-light casements in chamfered stone architraves, ornamental slate hanging to the gables. Interior not inspected. The cast iron panes to the windows are an distinctive feature.

Listing NGR: SX4007677865

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611827

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)