The Swiss Cottage

Description

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

ZEALS FANTLEY LANE ST 73 SE (east side) 6/183 The Swiss Cottage GV II Detached house. Late C19. Rockfaced limestone with brick dressings to ground floor, timber-framing with brick nogging to first floor, tiled roof with ceramic ridge cresting, diagonally-set brick stacks. Single-storey and attic. T-plan. Original porch with diamond glazing and half-glazed door in south angle between wing and south range, single-light and 2-light cast-iron casements to right, one gabled dormer with 2-light casement and finial to gable. Wing projecting to left has 3-light casement to ground floor, square bay and to jettied attic bay with gable. Range to left has single-light casement. Left return has ground floor 3- light casement and jettied attic with gable and 3-light casement.

Right return has similar windows to ground floor and jetty over; all casements are cast-iron. Rear has no windows, single-storey extension with slate roof. Interior not accessible at time of survey (October 1986). Said to have been built by the Chafyn- Grove family of Zeals House (q.v.), an excellently preserved example of this genre.

Listing NGR: ST7809631452

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE\Cotton_G.M. IOE Records for Cotton, G.M.; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

Copyright IoE Mr G.M. Cotton. Source Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project