Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL BAMPTON BANK

5/215 Nos 9 and 10

II

Pair of cottages built circa 1919 as a First World War memorial. Red brick
with stone ashlar dressings; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; diaper tile roof.

Plan: Pair of mirror-plan cottages facing south east on a bank above the
road. Overall T-plan building. In the main block each cottage has 2 rooms
either side of a large axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Each end
are projecting gable-end stacks. In the centre each cottage has a one-room
plan parlour projecting forward under parallel roofs.

Single storey.

Exterior: Symmetrical 1:2:1-window front of timber casements containing
rectangular panes of leaded glass, the front parlour ones are taller with
mullions and transoms. The doorways are at the back of the outer walls of the
front parlour wing (both contain replacement part-glazed doors),and are
sheltered by flat roofed verandahs across the front of the main block and
carried on brick piers. Main block roof is gable-ended. The front parlour
wing has a double-gabled front end with stone coping and there is a stone band
across the front at eaves level which is inscribed in Roman serif capitals "In
memory of those who fell in the War, 1914-1918". Between the windows below
are 3 plaques inscribed with the names of the dead of the parish and these are
cleverly framed by the dividing iron rainwater drainpipes.

Interior: Not inspected.

This pair of attractive cottages make an unusual but useful war memorial.

Listing NGR: TQ6318044882

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543188

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  For the Record
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas