Description

GERMANSWEEK GERMANSWEEK
SX 49 SW

6/91 Pump Cottage

GV II

Small house. Mid-late C17 with C19 additions and late C20 alteration. Rendered cob
walls on rubble base. Corrugated asbestos roof gabled to right end and hipped at
left end. 2 rubble stacks, one axial originally at the left gable end, the other
projects from the right gable end with an oven beside it and is rendered.
Plan: 2 room plan originally, each room heated by gable end stack. Present entry is
into right-hand room but a blocked doorway into the left-hand room suggests that it
may once have been 2 cottages. C19 outshut added along the rear of the building.
Another C19 outshut at the left gable end was made 2 storeys in the late C20.
Original position of staircase unclear, at present it rises between the 2 rooms.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of late C20 small-paned 2-light casements.
The centre ground floor window was formerly a doorways. To right of centre is early
C20 lean-to with C20 plank door. C19 outshut along rear wall.
Interior: Fireplace to right-hand room has chamfered wooden lintel with straight-cut
stops. Oven in left-hand side. The left-hand room has insubstantial roughly
chamfered wany cross beams.

Listing NGR: SX4381794191

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459058

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)