Description

SJ 43 SW
9/195

WELSHAMPTON CP
Balmer Heath
SANDY LANE (west side)
No.2, Moss Cottage

II
Cottage, now disused. Probably C17 with later additions and alterations.Red brick and timber frame, roughcast to front; corrugated iron over thatch roof has deep boarded eaves. One storey and attic.

C19 casement to far left and to right of segmental-headed plank door to right of centre. C19 cast-iron latticed eaves dormer directly above right casement and narrow raking eaves dormer with leaded lights to left of left casement. Integral axial red brick end stack to right at junction with No.1, Moss Cottage (not included in this list) has top rebuilt in late C19 red brick. Early C20 single storey red brick addition to left has blocked doorway to left and casement to right.

INTERIOR: right ground floor room has plain spine beam and joists and infilled inglenook fireplace with chamfered segmental wooden lintel. Left room, entered by plank door, has plain joists and oak staircase with right-angled turn. Wide boarded oak floor boards to first floor and stepping of brick stack visible in right room. Single-purlin roof with original thatching spars has centre truss plastered over at time of resurvey (February 1987).

Listing NGR: SJ4455534520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307508

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)