Description

WESTON CHURCH LANE
TL 22 NE (East side)
Church End

5/82 Church Gate Cottage
21.10.82 and Cottage By The Church

GV II

2 adjacent houses. C17, C20 extensions at each end. Timber frame, N
house (Church Gate Cottage) dark weatherboarded with red brick N
extension and steep slate roofs, S house roughcast with steep thatched
roofs. In Church Gate Cottage the older part is of 1½-storeys with
internal gable chimneys, 2 2-light casement windows, 2 gabled dormers at
the eaves with pierced bargeboards. Short weatherboarded extension with
matching roof, gabled dormer and 4-lights casement window. Single-storey
red brick extension set back at N end. Trellis porch to middle of older
part. Interior has stop-chamfered axial beams. Gabled brick C19 rear
wing. Cottage By The Church has small 1½-storeys older part at N
continuing line of other cottage. 2-lights casement dormer at eaves of
thatched. roof. 4-lights flush -casement window. Canted rear bay window
with small panes. Tall 2-storeys thatched S crosswing with dark
weatherboarded front and S side but roughcast gable triangle projects
only to front (W) with chimney rising through N roofslope, 2 windows to
each floor of front gable with entrance beside LH window. 4-panels door.
Interior of older part has exposed framing and axial chamfered and
stopped beams. NMR photo of 1959 shows a window and door in the position
of the 4-lights window, and scalloped bargeboards to dormers of N house.
The group is important in the setting of the church.

Listing NGR: TL2665829959

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396588

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)