Description

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SJ 98 SW
3/3

ADLINGTON C.P.
BROOKLEDGE LANE (South Side)
Keepers Cottage.

(Formerly listed as Styperson Park Cottage)

II
Cottage and shippon: probably C16 origins, fabric late C17 with alterations since. Coursed sandstone rubble, Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge, one brick and one massive stepped stone gable chimney. Two storey, five bay south front. Right end bay has a two-light wooden casement with the remains of a hood mould. Adjacent is a lean-to porch with a heavy flagged roof with a doorcase with a chamfered lintel behind. Remaining windows are two- or three-light wooden casements with a left end at door to the shippon with a square pitch hole above.

Interior: heavily chamfered ceiling beams (some boxed in). Good iron range in massive chimney breast. This gable wall has some hidden timber framing. In parlour early Victorian fireplace has freemason's symbols and a cast iron grate. Some three-board doors. This was the gamekeeper of Styperson Park's cottage.

Listing NGR: SJ9316980117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615150

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)