Description

Early to earlier 20th century. Pair of tall single storey and attic, 3-bay cottages with Arts and Crafts details, mock half-timbered dormerheads and jerkinhead roof. Banded squared rubble with ashlar quoins and raised margins. Tabbed openings with moulded window and doorheads. Timber-mullioned dormer windows.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Cottage to left (Wingate) with leaded coloured glass and moulded apron to part-glazed panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight and decorative cast-iron doorbell with key, windows in flanking bays and finialled bipartite dormer windows above flanking small cast-iron rooflight. Gabled garage projecting at outer left angle, with bipartite window on return to right and part-glazed timber door in re-entrant angle beyond. Cottage to right (Northneuk) mirrors above but without coloured glass and with lower set-back piended bay to outer right.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: lined render or stone-faced bays to right of centre, random rubble to left. Cottage to right (Wingate) with small opening at centre giving way to jettied (bathroom) bay above with bipartite window, satellite dish to right and large modern conservatory to outer right angle. Cottage to left (Northneuk) with similar jettied bay at centre and gable of earlier cottage very close to left bay.

SW (NEWTON LANE) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with jerkinhead roof over low harled bay with altered window.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows to Wingate; modern sash and case-effect pivot glazing to Northneuk. Grey slates. Banded, coped brick stacks, those to centre and SW with decorative square terracotta cans. Deeply overhanging eaves; decorative bargeboarding and cast-iron finials to dormerheads.

INTERIOR: Wingate with good decorative scheme in place including some decorative plasterwork cornices; panelled doors and reveals; brass sash lifts. Timber dog-leg staircase with fluted newel posts and pendant finials. Original cast-iron bath and tap fittings. Northneuk not seen 2002.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES: low saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset decorative ironwork railings and gates

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779430

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey