Description

NEWTON ST PETROCK NEWTON ST PETROCK
SS 41 SW

3/53 Church Gate Cottage

8.8.83

GV II

Small house. Probably early C16 remodelled in C17. Whitened rubble walls with some
cob. Gable-ended scantle slate roof. Plastered rubble stack at left gable-end with
brick shaft; rendered rubble rear lateral stack also with brick shaft.
Plan: 2-room plan, right-hand room heated by rear lateral fireplace, the other room
by an end stack. These are probably insertions into an open hall heated by a
central hearth. C18 barn addition at left-hand end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of 2-light C20 casements - 1st
floor central window is a wide 3-light casement only one pane high. Below it is a
C20 glazed gabled porch with plank and glazed door behind. From the central almost
to the left-hand end the front wall projects slightly. Lower C18 barn at left end
with doorway to right and double garage doors at the centre, beyond it is a lower
pigsty.
Interior: left-hand room has partly filled-in fireplace with chamfered and run-out
stopped wooden lintel and cloam oven. Large open fireplace in right-hand room has
dressed stone jambs with chamfered wooden lintel and cloam oven. Rough closely-
spaced ceiling beams.
Roof structure consists of 3 original raised crucks with collars halved on and
trenched purlins, access to the roof was limited but the right-hand truss appears to
be black.

Listing NGR: SS4115112211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399052

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)