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ST6618
11/172

WILBORNE PORT CP
NEWTOWN (North West corner)
Nos 28 to 35 (inclusive)

24.3.61

GV
II

Angle terrace of eight cottages. c1818. Local stone rubble coursed; Thatched hipped and half-hipped roofs nos 33-35; asbestos cement slates no 28; corrugated iron nos 29-30; brick chimney stacks, some rendered and other modified, 'L' plan block with curved ridge, as nos 19-27 (QV). Two storeys, most houses only one bay.

No 28 now two bays, having lean-to single storey extension to South gable; upper storey in the projecting main gable rendered; plain casement windows, late door to side: this house enlarged substantially at rear. No 29 apparently absorbed into 28. No 30 has C20 plain casement windows and late C20 stone and corrugated asbestos sheet porch with eight panel door. No 31 is similar, but with rendered doors to porch and glazed aluminium door.

No 32 has plain casements and earlier boarded door, nos 30-32 have segmental arched heads to lower windows & no 32 has segmental arched doorway. No 33 is the corner house with projecting chamfered gable, with leaded steel casement windows and corner porch shared with no 34, which has a casement below and a steel window above. No 35 has two bays, with lean-to porch in South East corner, bay one projects, with mid C20 small pane casement windows, but over the porch is a leaded semi-circular casement one of the few surviving original windows.

Interiors not seen.

Newtown is a planned layout, of c1818, with originally some 80 thatched cottages; it is said to have originated as a vote-catching scheme.

This terrace although altered, retains a few original details not seen elsewhere, and helps to illustrate the original concept.

Primarily included for group value.

Listing NGR: ST6674618832

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307946

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)