Description

ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD
SS 53 18 IN THE WOOD
18/253 Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20 and Church
- View Cottage including front
railings

GV II

Row of 5 cottages, formerly 6 estate cottages. Circa 1877 for the Honourable Mark
George Kerr Rolle. Local stone rubble laid to rough courses; stone stacks topped
with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof.
Plan: Row of 5 contemporary cottages facing east towards the churchyard opposite.
They number 17 - Church View Cottage from left to right. They do not have identical
plans. From left to right they have 1-room, 2-room, 2-room, 1-room and 3-room plans,
all heated by a series of axial and gable-end stacks. In fact the 3-room plan
cottage, Church View Cottage at the right end, has been made by uniting a 1-room plan
and a 2-room plan cottage. 2 storeys.
Exterior: Overall regular 11-window front of late C19 and replacement casements with
glazing bars. The 3 ground floor windows to left (Nos. 17 and 18) have flat stone
arches over. Others have been replaced by C20 concrete lintels. The right end 2-
window section (Church View Cottage) have low segmental arches of grey ashlar
voussoirs. Front doorways contain a variety of doors, the originals are plank doors.
All have gabled porches with Tudor arch headed outer arches in the plank gables,
trellis sides and brick sleeper walls. These gables have finials and pendants. All
these porches survive to a greater or lesser extent.
Interiors: not inspected.
A narrow strip of ground along the front is enclosed by original cast iron railings;
plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials. Original gates in
the same style.
This was a Rolle estate village. The big house in the parish, Stevenstone Court
(q.v.), now ruined, was rebuilt in 1872-73 and the whole village, including the
Church of St Giles (q.v.), was remodelled shortly afterwards.

Listing NGR: SS5339918960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440905

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)