Description

TR 1644-1744 ELHAM THE ROW
(west side)

8/66 Oak Cottage and
No. 1 and No. 2
Old Cottages

GV II

House row. Oak Cottage probably of C17 or early C18 origin, with
C19 alterations, largely restored in early C20. Nos. 1 and 2 Old Cottage
mid-to-late C18 with some C19 fenestration. Oak Cottage: ground floor
red and grey brick in English bond, first floor tile-hung. Plain
tile roof. Two storeys. Coursed stone plinth with chamfered brick
top course. Continuous jetty. Left gable end brick, corbelled out to
jetty. Red brick gable-end stacks. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows;
two sixteen-pane sashes and small central two-light casement. Two
three-light casements to ground floor. Central ribbed door with
segmental head. Rear lean-to. Interior: joists largely replaced,
in similar scantling to original. Central staircase. C19 fireplace
surround and grate. Nos. 1 and 2 Old Cottages: house pair, to right
of Oak Cottage. Red and grey brick, largely in Flemish bond. Plain
tile roof. 2 storeys. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Gabled, with
gable-end stacks. Irregular fenestration of 2 sashes; one twelve-pane
to left and one four-pane to right. Two four-pane ground-floor sashes
with segmental heads. Central pair of doors, each of four sunk panels,
under overall segmental head; to No. 2 to left and No. 1 to right.
Interior not inspected. All three included for group value.

Listing NGR: TR1766044111

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551605

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]