Description

TF 46 SW LITTLE STEEPING BACK LANE
(South side)
1501/3/57
The Cottage

17.12.1987
II*

Cottage. Mid C18 with C19 alterations. Colourwashed mud and stud with brick plinth. Half hipped thatched roof under corrugated iron sheeting. Single central red brick stack with later stack added to left. Single storey and garret, and lobby entrance plan.
Main 3 window front, with central plank door flanked by single glazing bar sash windows with segmental heads.
Left return has single 2-light sliding sash window with over-lapping pains of glass.
Right return has single 2-light sliding sash window to each floor, both with glazing bars.
Rear facade has continuous low catslide extension with low brick outer wall, built in two stages, that section to right with pantile roof. Left section contains single small off-centre fixed window.
INTERIOR retains original two room plan with central stacke and lobby entrance. Original wooden winder staircase behind the stack. Original 2 panel doors. Simple largely original roof structure supports thatched roof.
This is a remarkably well preserved example of the once very common local mud and stud' cottages. These important vernacular buildings are now very rare in Lindsey, especially in this unaltered form.

Listing NGR: TF4320763028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548669

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Recommended Books

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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)