Description

STATION ROAD ST 88 SW (West side) 7/17

GV Portcullis Cottage II

The description shall be amended to read

Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" but mid C18 in character with mid- late C20 addition and alterations. Coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings; roof of Cotswold stone slates to front, double-roman clay tiles to rear and addition. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays, with rear outshut and added rear wing (not of special interest). Quoins. Paired doorways to centre, left one in C20 trellised porch, right one now a window. All windows of 2 lights with leaded casements, the original windows with chamfered mullions and surrounds, and dripstones. Raised lozenge datestone to centre of 1st floor. Shaped kneelers, coping, and corniced stacks to gables. Rear: catslide roof to outshut. Returns: each has an original attic window with dripstone, and an inserted window in outshut; quoins at rear angle indicate that originally the outshut was lower.

Interior: three wooden winder staircases; elm floorboards; original roof timbers.

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ACTON TURVILLE C.P. STATION ROAD ST 88 SW (west side) 7/17 Portcullis Cottage

G.V. II Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" on lozenge in centre of first floor. Coursed rubble; Cotswold stone slate roof on ground floor, 2 windows on first floor. 2-light casement windows with lead cames, in chamfered mullions and surrounds. Door off-centre to left under C20th porch; blocked doorway to right, now a window.

Listing NGR: ST8087381120

External Links

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]