Description

ANCROFT CHESWICK
NU 04 NW
7/25 East House farm
cottages with
attached garden
walls and railings

GV II

Terrace of 8 farm cottages with their attached garden walls and railings,
now 4 dwellings and a storehouse, c.1820. Restored and converted into 5
cottages in 1940s. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Iron railings.

L-plan with 7 cottages stepping down the hill end the 8th at right-angles at
the bottom. Single storey. Each cottage was originally 3 bays with central
boarded door and small square windows in raised surrounds. Only the 8th
cottage remains exactly like this. Each of the others has had one window
extended to 2 or 3 lights in similar style. Cottages 1, 4 and 6 have also
had their doors blocked off. Gabled roofs with flat coping. Rendered end
stacks of one and two shafts.

Low walls with chamfered coping. Railings and gates with round spearhead
standards and urn finials to principals.

Despite the alterations an unusUally fine and complete group of workers'
cottages.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NU0325646670

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294179

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