History

Early C19 smallholder's/slate quarry worker's cottage with the original attached cowhouse later converted to domestic use and replaced by a new cowhouse, also attached to the cottage. The smallholding, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map, is likely to have been sustained by the dual agricultural and industrial economy. Abandoned and in poor condition at time of Survey.

Exterior

Single-storey cottage and attached cowhouse. Original house-part to right with original cowhouse to left later converted to domestic use and replaced by new cowhouse attached to left gable end. Limewashed rubblestone; graded slate roof to original structure, Victorian slate roof to later cowhouse. Original house part has 4-paned sashes with slate cills to left and right of slightly off-set boarded door; integral end stack to right and ridge stack to left at junction with original cowhouse, both with slate drips. Original cowhouse has boarded door to left with boarded-up window to its right; boarded doors to front of later cowhouse.

Interior

Single large room to right of ridge stack has exposed A-frame truss and large open fireplace with timber lintel to end stack; smaller room to left has chimney breast projecting into room. Slate and quarry tile floors.

Reasons for Listing

Listed, notwithstanding its poor condition, as a characteristic example of an early C19 smallholding, exhibiting the distinctive long rectangular plan-form of cottage and attached outbuildings typical of the local vernacular tradition; its comparatively large size suggests that farming was at least as important to its occupants as work in the nearby slate quarry.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29499143

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)