Description

SY 19 NE OFFWELL OFFWELL

3/107 Beckside Cottage and Ropley
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GV II

Pair of cottages. Early - mid C19, Beckside Cottage was renovated circa 1980.
Colour-washed local stone and flint rubble; stone rubble stack topped with C19
brick; thatch roof.
Plan: pair of contemporary cottages built alongside the lane facing south-east.
Originally they each had a mirror plan of the other; each a 2-room plan cottage with
unheated outer rooms and the larger inner room heated by an axial stack in the party
wall serving back-to-back fireplaces. Beckside Cottage is the left (south-west)
cottage and Ropley the right one. Ropley appears only superficially modernised but
circa 1980 Beckside Cottage was refurbished and the front doorway was blocked and a
new doorway inserted in the left end wall. At the same time a single storey
extension built at right angles to rear. Both cottages are 2 storeys.
Exterior: overall irregular 3-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing
bars. The right 2-window section of Ropley appears to be the original arrangement;
a nearly symmetrical arrangement around a central doorway which contains a late C19
- early C20 plank door under a contemporary thatched hood. In the Beckside Cottage
section a couple of windows have been blocked and the front doorway blocked by a
small C20 bay window. The roof is hipped to left and half-hipped to right.
Interior: not inspected although some plain carpentry detail was seen.
This pair of cottages form part of a group of attractive thatch-roofed cottages with
Thatch (q.v) and Thatchcote (q.v).

Listing NGR: SY1942599254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457266

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper