Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 DAPP'S HILL
739-1/4/30 (East side)
19/06/75 Nos 1-5 (consecutive) Chew Cottages

GV II

Row of 5 houses. Dated 1633/IT on weathered stone below rear
gable, with early C19 refronting and 1968 restoration after
flood damage; Nos 4 and 5 at bottom of hill are early C19.
Coursed rubble with brick dressings to ground floor window
heads, ashlar copings and gabled pantile roofs with end and
ridge brick stacks.
PLAN: Nos 1, 2 and 3 originally a 3-unit plan, still retaining
central stair turret to rear; later altered to 3 cottages. Nos
4 and 5 are single-unit plans.
EXTERIOR: each cottage is a 2-storey; 2-window range, except
centre (No.3) which is one-window range. Each cottage has 2-
or 3-light early C19 casements under cambered brick heads
either side of doorway to ground floor, and flat-headed paired
casements to first-floor. Nos. 3 and 4 have wooden shutters to
first-floor; No.2 has late C20 casements to first-floor. Plank
doors with glazed lights; wrought-iron porch to No.3 and
gabled wooden porch with bargeboard to No.4. Cottage No.5 is
on the south-east corner and to the rear with outshut to
ground floor and similar casements under cambered heads to
first floor. Late C20 flat-roofed extensions.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the cottages were rented by the parish as
poor houses in the early C19.
Forms a group with Dapp's Hill Bridge and Nos 6,7 and 8 Chew
Cottages, Dapp's Hill (qqv).
(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 42).

Listing NGR: ST6565568029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664428

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