Post Cottage And Two Adjoining Cottages To The North

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SOUTH POOL SOUTH POOL VILLAGE SX 74 SE 6/145 Post Cottage and two adjoining Cottages to the north

G.V. II

Row of 3 cottages, formerly 4. C18 altered in C20. Rendered and plastered stone rubble walls which may incorporate some cob. Thatched roofs to central and right- hand cottages with gable end, asbestos slate roof to left-hand cottage hipped at end. This cottage has a brick stack on a rubble base at its left end, brick axial stack and one at right-hand end of row.

Plan: the left-hand and central cottages are of 2-room plan, Post Cottage to right was formerly 2 cottages but now has 3 rooms.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 : 2 : 3 window front. The left-hand and central cottages have early to mid C20 2-light casements apart from a late C19 or early C20 4-pane sash to right on ground floor of central cottage. Post Cottage has an early C19 horizontal sliding sash to left on 1st floor with a C19 2-light casement to its right and below. A former leanto porch to left on ground floor is now a bay window. 2 early C20 4-pane sashes to the right. Gabled brick porch to right of centre has a 4-panel door behind. The other 2 cottages have similar circa early C20 porches with a C20 4-panel door to the left-hand one and C20 plank door to the central one.

Interior: inaccessible at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SX7744540095

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0089 IOE Records taken by Dorothea Baker; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Dorothea Baker. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project