Description

SP 03 SW WINCHCOMBE THE STREET, GRETTON
(south side)
1/195
Willow Cottage and
4.7.60 Upper School Cottage
(formerly listed as:
new School Cottage)

- II

School house and dwelling, now two dwellings. C17 with major C20 additions
and C19 modifications. Coursed and squared limestone, concrete stone slates.
A rambling composition with various gables and dormers, street front is
two gabled, of which right half is old and left is C20, older gable 2-light
over 3-light hollow chamfer mullion casements with stopped drips; return
wall, right includes external eaves stack to right of door to Willow Cottage
and 2½ storey gable to Upper School Cottage including single light opening
to roof space and 2-light reserve chamfer mullion casements at ground and
first floor; late C20 door and gabled porch. On east front corresponding
gable has single light in gable over 2-light reserve chamfer mullioned case-
ment under stopped drip at first floor and C20 steel casement at ground
floor. Also to this front, right of 3-storey gable is very wide early plank
door. Interior of Upper School Cottage has deep chamfered beams, one timber
framed partition with wattle and daub, fireplace with chamfered bressumer
to good stone cheeks, and roof light in east gable with early internal
shutter. Although much modified, this property still has architectural
and historic interest.

Listing NGR: SP0079830391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26383803

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)