Description

SW 72 SW ST MARTIN
-IN-MENEAGE
4/221 Mudgeon Cottage
-

II

Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Painted walls with dressed granite quoins and sills and
shallow brick arches. Hipped asbestos slate roof with slightly projecting eaves
sweeping lower over integral rear outshut, brick chimneys over side walls. Hipped
asbestos slate roof over later wing left and scantle slate roof to adjoining
outbuilding on right.
Double depth plan 2 rooms wide with central through passage; the kitchen living room
left and parlour right; dairy behind kitchen; stair hall at rear right of middle and
pantry behind parlour. Extended later in the C19 by double depth wing, left, and
outbuilding possibly shippon, right.
2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window south front plus later one window wing left
and outbuilding slightly set back on right. There is an extra but original window
opening to the ground floor between the left hand window and the nearly central
doorway. 4-panel later glazed to top panels door with C20 porch. The windows are
original hornless sashes each with border of marginal panes with diagonal corner bars
surrounding 12 panes to middle.
The rear is completely unaltered with original windows. The mid-floor stair window is
like the front windows but taller. 12-pane sash beside doorway, otherwise 2 light
small pane casements. The dairy window at ground floor right has horizontal glazing
bars to left hand light and wooden shutter to right hand light.
Interior not inspected.
This is very similar in design to Boskenna qv. St Martin, and has the same sort of
sash windows and the extra window left of the doorway.

Listing NGR: SW7391724722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520177

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)