Yew Tree Cottage / Kimpton Cottage

Description

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

SU 2846 KIMPTON KIMPTON

7/7 Kimpton Cottage & Yew Tree Cottage

GV II

Unequal pair of enlarged cottages. C17, C19 and late C20 extensions and restoration. Flint and brick, with a hipped thatch roof. Irregular front (south) of 2 storeys, 4 windows: the west side (Kimpton) has a wing (of 2 storeys 1 window) projecting forward, with a garage still further forward: the east side has a single-storeyed outshot to the front and extensive rear additions. The walls of the old part of Kimpton are of flint, with brick quoins, bands, zig-zag ornament between bands at 1st floor level, some lozenges, cambered openings and plinth; there is a small oval (now filled) above the old doorway, & the doorway has a triangular head of brickwork, containing the date 1610; the east side (Yew Tree) has flint panels (of the early C19), with other walling of flint without bands but with brick quoins. Casements. 3 French doors, one-beneath a thatched hood on posts.

Listing NGR: SU2819446756

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0354 IOE Records taken by Gill Cardy; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Gill Cardy. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project