Description

TM 49 NE
4/36

SOMERLEYTON
THE GREEN
Nos 9 to 12 (inclusive)

GV
II

Row of 4 estate cottages. Circa 1850. Yellow brick, the upper floor
pebbledash-rendered with applied timbering. Slightly projecting upper floor
carried on wooden brackets. Thatched roof. Picturesque style. Symmetrical
to the green, with 2 half-hipped gables set forward and similar end gables set
back. 2 storeys. 4 windows, mullion and transom casements; the original lead
lattice cames only remain in the upper part of each light. The front gables
have 4-light canted bays to the ground floor with thatched roofs. 2 half-
dormers. 4 doorways, all in side walls: thatched lean-to porches on timber
posts, boarded entrance doors. Bargeboards with pierced lobes. 4 rectangular
stacks with grouped flues. Part of the model village of estate workers'
cottages built around the green for Sir Morton Peto to the designs of John
Thomas.

Listing NGR: TM4842797443

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283351

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