Description

STOKE C.P. MILL POOL LANE
SJ 65 NW
1/88 Stoke Cottage
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- II

Cottage, early C18, with large 1856 addition (date on porch) at the
rear (north-west). Brickwork with coloured surface treatment; slate
roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. The rear addition forms a 2-span roof and a
3-bay wing (north-east) completes an "L" shaped plan. The cottage
entrance is a pair of three-quarter-glazed doors, with diminished
stiles and bead and flush lower panels, in a twin pilaster beaded door
case. A flat, lead-covered, porch is supported by two slender timber
columns. The porch is flanked by ogee bow windows containing
two-light Gothick casements with intersecting tracery. There are
similar windows at first floor level. Wide plastered soffites, with
large spandrel boxed ends, and barge boards. Gable end stacks with
diagonally set flues. The gables of the 1856 addition project beyond
the cottage at both ends and the east gable has a projecting porch
with Tudor arches south and east. The porch contains a 9-panel
bolection moulded door with rectangular overlight. A rectangular
stone tablet above the east opening of the porch has the initials FFC
and the date. The windows in the east gable and rear wing are mainly
sashes with stone sills, deep lintels with stepped labels, single
vertical glazing bars and cusped tracery to heads. The west gable has
two "Y" tracery windows and a large canted bay.
Interior: The entrance hall has a plaster modillion cornice with two
lines of egg and dart moulding. The cottage ceilings are low with
cased beams. There are 6-panel doors in the cottage area, 4-panel and
ledged and battened doors in the later additions. The staircase has
cut and bracketed string, curtail step, square balusters and wreathed
handrail. There is an original C19 cast iron grate in the kitchen.

Listing NGR: SJ6134556536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429770

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)