Description

LAPFORD LAPFORD
SS 70 NW
4/88 Pleasant Cottage, Northcott
- Cottage and Rosebank Cottage
including garden railings to east
and south
GV II

3 cottages, said to date from 1740 and features are consistent with mid C18, C19
addition. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20
brick; thatched roof. Row of 3 cottages under same roof facing south with 1 room
added in C19 set back from main front at right (east) end. Pleasant Cottage at the
left (west) end is a 2-room plan cottage with corner stack to left rear. Northcott
Cottage in the centre is a 2-room plan cottage with an axial stack in left party
wall. Rosebank Cottage at right (east) end has 1 room in the main block with rear
corner stack and another room in the recessed addition. All are 2 storeys. Main
block has a regular 5-window front and addition has a 6th window. Both Pleasant
Cottage and Northcott Cottage have symmetrical 2-window fronts with central doorways
and C20 slate monopitch roofed porches. Pleasant Cottage windows are C20 casements
and sashes, most with glazing bars. Northcott Cottage has C20 casements with
glazing bars. Rosebank Cottage has C19 and C20 casements and door is to recessed
room behind C20 single storey extension. Only Pleasant Cottage inspected
internally. It has plain carpentry detail, a chamfered beam with runout stops and
diagonal corner rubble fireplace with replacement lintel and includes a Bideford
cloam oven with its pot door to left.
Late C19 cast iron boundary spear railings and fleur-de-lis finials to main
verticals, brick footings and ornate gateposts with round-arched overthrow enriched
with scroll work and twisted pieces is included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS7316008225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542201

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)