Description

TG 31 SW SALHOUSE LOWER STREET north side

7/72 Providence Cottage.

G.V. II

House, formerly an estate cottage. Mainly C19, but incorporating earlier
re-used material, and possibly with earlier core. Red brick, black-glazed
and smut pantiles. Two storeys, with 1½ storey range to west. Two storey
block with symmetrical facade : two ground floor sashes with glazing bars,
two 3-light first floor casements. Windows set in chamfered gault brick
surrounds. Window bays slightly advanced. Central doorway with lean-to canopy
on timber brackets. Gault brick panel with the initials RW set above doorway.
Parapeted gables with external stacks, that at the west gable larger. Single-
storey lean-to at east gable. Two small brick buttresses on south wall.
1½ storey block to west elaborately decorated and partly timber-framed.
Slightly advanced two-storey bay off-centre with plain tiled gabled roof:
two three-light square-headed windows with arched and cusped heads to lights.
Three terra-cotta panels at first floor level, possibly re-used chimney shaft
bricks. Upper window flanked by large console brackets supporting roof
structure. Timber panel above window head with motto "God's providence is
mine inheritance." Wall to right of bay partly timber framed with brick
infill. Small arched window with leaded glazing. Arched doorway in chamfered
brick surround to left of bay. Crow-stepped west gable; attic window with
gabled hood. Lean-to extension at rear.

Listing NGR: TG3066314316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26475238

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