Description

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ST1629
10/41

BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP
STATION ROAD (South Side),
Slimbridge

II
Pair of cottages, now one dwelling. Mid C19. Irregularly coursed, squared, red sandstone, double Roman tile gabled roofs with decorative bargeboards, brick stacks. L-plan. One and a half storeys, 1:1 bays, sash windows with marginal glazing bars, first floor window on right breaks through the eaves, gabled top with decorative bargeboards. Entrance in left-hand gabled wing, gabled porch with decorative ridge tiles, bargeboards and finial, four panel door with tripartite rectangular glazed opening above. There is evidence of a blocked opening ground floor left.

The railway line from Taunton to Watchet opened in 1862. The building is shown on historic mapping as Station Cottages, and it is an attractive survival complete with all its trimmings.

Listing NGR: ST1636229013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26469880

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)