Description

SP 03 NW
5/70

DUMBLETON
DUMBLETON VILLAGE

Nos 25 and 26

GV
II

Pair of mirror image estate cottages. Mid C19, built by Hunt of
Evesham for Edward Holland M.P after a design by Richardson and
Ross of Darlington. Brick, from the estate brick works; limestone
dressings; red tile roof, brick stacks. 'T'-shaped overall plan.
Twin gables to roadside front; 3-light wooden casement within a
flat-chamfered surround to the ground floor of each gable; similar
2-light casement above. C19 plank door to the front of each side
wing, within a rustic timber porch; single-light casement above:
Two-light casement to the ground floor of the gable ends. Stack
rises from valley between the two cottages. This pair of cottages
is the most unaltered of a type of cottage common on the Dumbleton
estate. The design was the prize winner in the 1861 competition of
the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Plans and elevations of these
cottages are illustrated in Bailey Denton's The Farm Homesteads of
England, 1863.

Listing NGR: SP0165836292

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26384018

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)