Description

SX 88 NW
2/61

BRIDFORD
SWANFORD

Rose Cottage
GV
II

Cottage. Late C17. Whitewashed plastered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof,
gabled at ends; right end projecting stack.
Plan: Single depth 2 room plan with a principal heated room to the right with a
stair adjacent to the stack and a narrow unheated room to the left, entrance on
front into unheated room, which has been divided in the C20 between a bath room and
entrance lobby. Single-storey C20 slate-roofed lean-to at right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over
the first floor windows; gabled C20 porch on front at left. Fenestration of C19
and C20 small-pane timber casements. Rear elevation blind except for a small C20
window lighting the bathroom.
Interior: Chamfered scroll-stopped crossbeam to heated room; C20 fireplace probably
concealing earlier lintel and jambs.
Roof: Not inspected at time of survey (1986).
An attractive small C17 cottage forming a group with the adjacent West Park Cottage
(qv) which is approximately parallel to it at the rear, the 2 houses are extremely
close together.

Listing NGR: SX8211388422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457176

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey