Description

SX 98 SE
6/257
12.2.88

KENTON
SOUTH TOWN, Kenton
Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Southtown Cottages

GV
II

3 adjoining cottages. C17 or earlier. Plastered cob and stone; the main range has
end stacks with brick shafts and a rear lateral stack in the centre.
Plan: single depth plan with a larger double-fronted cottage in the centre flanked by
smaller cottages to left and right, each with front doors towards the centre.
Evidence of the C17 plan with a large hall to the left of a cross passage, a smaller
room to the right, the extreme right end room probably a later addition.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 1:2:1 window front with 2 additional windows. The
left hand and centre cottages have C19 plank and cover strip front doors, the right
hand cottage has a later panelled front door. Set of late C18 or C19 small pane
sliding sashes, except for one to the right of the front door of No. 2 which is a C17
timber mullioned window with chamfered mullions and one additional C20 window to the first floor of No 3.
Interior: 2 chamfered step-stopped cross beams to the 2 left hand rooms, rough axial
beam to right hand room. Fireplaces rebuilt.
Group value with other thatched houses and the Old Estate Office.

Listing NGR: SX9654283091

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389920

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)