Description

BEAFORD BOND STREET, Beaford
SS 5515
20/41 Doone Cottage
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GV II

Cottage. Late C17 or early C18, with probably later C18 additions. Rendered cob and
stone rubble. Hipped thatched roof (probably wheatstraw). Slate roofs over outshut
and porch. Rendered axial stack.
Plan and development: Two-room plan. Axial stack with principal larger room to left
and smaller room to right. It is possible that the right-hand room was a later C18
addition to a former one-room plan cottage. Probably later C18 one-room plan
addition with end stack at rear of left-hand end. Outshut added to left-hand end.
Two storeys with one-storey outshut.
Exterior: Asymmetrical 2-window front; C19 two-and 3-light wooden casements. Old
boarded door to left with pegged wooden frame and C20 gabled wooden porch.
Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room has C17 plain joists spanning front to back.
Large open stone fireplace to right has chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops.
Front window has jambs continuing to ground.

Listing NGR: SS5534615028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399029

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990