Description

SX 79 NW SPREYTON SPREYTON

2/287 Next to the Post
Office and Corner
Cottage

GV II

2 cottages. Probably C18. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone
rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof.
Plan: pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south-west. Each
cottage is a mirror plan of the other either side of the party wall. Main rooms
are the inner rooms heated by a central axial stack serving back-to-back
fireplaces. Central small entrance hall with stairs and unheated lobby (maybe
a diary) between the main rooms. The left cottage, Next to the Post Office,
is the least altered although its left end stack may be a late C19 insertion.
The right cottage, Corner Cottage, was formerly the Post Office. Both are
2 storeys with secondary rear service outshots.
Exterior: Next to the Post Office has a vaguely symmetrical 3-window front
of C19 and C20 casements, only the oldest with glazing bars. Central doorway
contains a late C19 - early C20 part-glazed panelled door behind a contemporary
gabled porch. Corner Cottage has a more altered 3-window front of late C19
- early C20 casements with glazing bars. Here however a canted bay window
appears to occupy the site of the original front doorway and the present front
doorway is to left of it. Also a secondary doorway has been inserted through
the right windows. Continuous roof is hipped each end.
Interior: only Next to the Post Office was available for inspection at the
time of this survey and it was largely the result of a late C19 refurbishment.
Roof was not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7005996739

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26466820

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings