Description

SX 39 SW ST GILES ON THE HEATH HELE

4/44 Datchcott
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II

Cottage. Late C17 with late C20 renovations. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone
rubble footings, water reed thatched roof hipped at the left end, gabled at the right
end with a right end stone stack with a projecting bread oven.
A 2 room single depth cottage with a hall/kitchen at the right with a semi-circular
projecting rear stair turret. The left-hand room is unheated. The present entrance
is in the left gable end, the C17 entrance may have been on the front or the cottage
may have been larger originally with a through passage entrance which no longer
exists.
2 storeys. The garden elevation is asymmetrical, the right-hand concealed by a C20
corrugated iron lean-to, one 2-light C20 casement with glazing bars to the left. The
entrance is through a C20 glazed porch on the left return. The rear stair turret has
a 2-light window, 1-light retaining square leaded panes, a 3-light window on the left
return also preserves some leaded glass.
Interior The left-hand room has been subdivided in the C20, the right-hand room has
a C20 grate that may conceal earlier features, the late C17 doorway to the stair
turret is ovolo-moulded and stopped, the stairs have been dismantled.

Listing NGR: SX3341491583

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455716

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)