Highway Cottage / Wendy House / Laberna

Description

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

HEYTESBURY HIGH STREET ST 92SW (south side) 9/67 No. 60 (Highway Cottage) and attached Wendy House, (formerly 11.9.68 listed as Laberna)

GV II

House at end of row with attached stables, now annexe. Mid C18 and early C19. Flemish bond brick, Wendy House is English garden wall bond brick, tiled roofs, brick stacks. Two storey, 4-windowed; sashes. House has door with 6 fielded panels to right of centre, 16-pane sash to right and two 12-pane sashes to left with thick glazing bars. First floor has three 12-pane sashes and one 6-pane sash. Attic has hipped dormer with 2-light casement to left.

Wendy House is single storey, gable end to road with 6-panelled door and 12-pane flush sash, half-hipped roof, linked to the house by double planked doors giving access to yard. Rear of house has two early C20 canted bays with French windows and half-glazed door between, first floor has 4-pane and 12-pane sashes. Right return of annexe was formerly partly open-fronted, now with C20 casements and door. Interior of house has 6-panelled doors and doors with four fielded panels, dog-leg stairs with stick balusters and turned newels, deeply chamfered beam with runout stops to east part of house, possibly a survival from the house partly destroyed by fire in 1765.

Listing NGR: ST9255342597

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0121 IOE Records taken by Antony Barrington-Brown; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Antony Barrington-Brown. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project