Listing Text

TL66SW NEWMARKET HIGH STREET

177-/4/10012 No.196
Queensbury Cottage

GV II

Small house at Queensbury [formerly Queensberry] Lodge Stables [qv]. Mid to late C18,
but may incorporate late C17 structure; refronted, extended at rear and wash-house added
in early C19; refitted internally and porch at rear added in mid C20. Red brick later painted
white; plain tile end-gabled roof with pair of roof dormers at rear with cat-slide slate roofs;
a projecting stack on each gable-end wall; pantile roof on lean-to addition at rear and
decayed, timber-framed, glazed porch. PLAN: three unit range facing street, early C19
lean-to range at rear entered through C20 projecting porch; early C19 wash-house with
hipped lean-to roof added against east gable-end wall. EXTERIOR: Main range of two
storeys, cellar, and attic. Symmetrical three window front with offset plinth and raised band
at first floor level; on the ground floor a central doorway with mid C19 four-panel door and
rectangular fanlight, and to each side of doorway a sash in opening with gauged brick flat
arch above a timber lintel, and a projecting stone sill; on first floor three similar sashes; all the
sashes with two vertical glazing bars in each frame. At rear, in each roof dormer a pair of
casements with glazing bars [4x4 panes]. INTERIOR: no visible features of interest; C20
staircase. Access to cellar through manhole under stair cupboard, not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL6394963104