Description

OVERBURY CP -
SO 9637 - 9737
10/105 Nos 52, 53 and 54
(Dormay Cottages)
GV II

Row of three houses. 1904 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin.
Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof with
gable-end parapets and ball finials to south front and hipped at rear.
Large ashlar stacks with moulded capping, two to main ridge and at ends
of main range. H-plan; main four-bay range aligned east/west with two-
bay west cross-wing and three-bay east cross-wing. Single storey and attic
with half-dormers and string course at attic storey level which is stepped
above doorways. South front elevation: windows are mainly of three lights
with chamfered mullions and leaded casements. Central part has two ground
floor windows, two gabled half-dormers with weatherboarded gables and 3-light
leaded casements and beneath eaves to left of each dormer is a rectangular
stair light. Beneath each stairlight is a square-headed archway into a small
lobby with a half-glazed door. There is a window on both storeys in the cross-
wing gable ends; the attic storey windows have hoodmoulds. Beneath the string
of the east cross-wing gable end is inscribed "DORMAY COTTAGES/ AD 1904". The
east side of the building facing the road has a ground floor window, a central
gabled half-dormer and rectangular lights on both floors; beneath the central
half-dormer is the entrance to No 54. To the rear of the central range are three
gabled wings and to the rear of the cross-wings are lean-to service rooms with
catslide roofs. The building appears to have been little altered since it was
built. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9603637852

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461082

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)