Description

GLANTON FRONT STREET
NU 0714
(North side)
Glanton Village

21/201 Primrose Cottage
and Rose Cottage
to north-west of
World Bird
Research Station
GV II

Cottages, early to mid-C18 of several builds. Heavy squared rubble with large
roughly-tooled quoins and dressings. Purple slate roof except for pantiles
on rear of Rose Cottage; Welsh slates on Rose Cottage outshuts and corrugated
iron sheets on Primrose Cottage outshut.

Primrose Cottage 2 storeys, 2 bays: Central boarded door; 12-pane sash windows
except for 4-pane sash on ground floor right. Coped right end gable, end
stacks. Rose Cottage, to right, 1 storey, 3 bays; boarded door between left
bays; 12-pane sash windows. Reversed-stepped coping to right end gable; axial
stack on ridge.

Interior: Rose Cottage has chamfered fireplace with set pot and old ironwork;
original beamed ceilings.

These cottages are said to have formed part of a row on the north side of the
former village green, before this was enclosed in the late C18.Rose Cottage,
with its lobby-entrance plan, is an unusually well-preserved example.

Listing NGR: NU0704614538

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306430

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Recommended Books

• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)