Description

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON
GREEN
7/483 Greenholme and Wheelwrights
Cottage

GV II

2 cottages, probably one house originally. Probably late C17/early C18 with
mid/late C19 workhop (now garage). Modernised circa 1985. House is timber-
framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with stretcher bond brick, frame
above hung withpeg-tile, bricks tacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.
Former workshop is Flemish bond red brick with peg-tile roof.

Plan: Pair of cottages occupying a late C17/early C18 3-room plan house
facing west north west, say north, onto The Green. Greenholme occupies the
left one-room section which has a rear lateral stack (probably an insertion).
Wheelwright Cottage occupies the rest. Centre room has original rear lateral
stack and the right end room has a probably secondary end stack. Large
workshop adjoining right (south) end.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: House has regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of C20
casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Both cottage front doorways
contain C20 plank-doors with coverstrips under gabled hoods on raking struts.
Tall roof is half-hipped both ends and contains a single front gabled dormer.

The gabled front of the workshop contains a set of part-glazed double doors
with long strap hinges alongside a sash window without glazing bars under a
low segmental brick arch. Gable has decorative pattern of burnt headers and
contains a bullseye window.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey
although some plain carpentry detail was seen.

This pair of cottages form part of an attractive and varied group of listed
buildings fronting The Green.

Listing NGR: TQ5433739231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552013

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)