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

• Wikidata Q26542201

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)