Description

SAMPFORD COURTENAY SAMPFORD COURTENAY
SS 60 SW
11/188 Fir Cottage and Westbury
II

Pair of cottages. Circa late C17 and probably C18. Rendered cob and rubble walls.
Fir Cottage has thatch roof gabled to right end. Westbury has gable ended slate
roof. Fir Cottage has large projecting rendered rubble or cob rear lateral stack
and axial brick stack. Westbury has projecting rendered rubble stack at left gable
end with brick shaft and C20 brick shaft set in from the eaves.
Plan: Fir Cottage is probably the earlier with a 2-room plan possibly with central
passage, rignt-hand room heated by rear lateral stack left-hand room by axial stack.
Westbury has smaller 2-room plan with left-hand room heated by axial stack.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Westbury to left has asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 1, 2
and 4-light casements. Plank door to left of centre. Fir Cottage has asymmetrical
2-window front of C20 2-light casements. The left-hand side of the house projects
with a C20 leanto porch in the angle which has a stable-type door.
Interior inaccessible at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SS6329800950

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611936

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)