Description

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SP 39 SW
1/10000

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH
Stockingford
ARBURY ROAD
Nos 350 and 352

GV
II
Pair of Arbury Park estate cottages. Circa early C17 remodelled as a pair of estate cottages in circa mid C19. Timber framed with brick infill all rendered and with chamfered blue brick window and doorway dressings. Plain tile roof south of added ends and moulded bargeboards. Blue brick axial and gable end stacks with yellow brick shafts.

PLAN: a timber-framed range was converted in circa mid C19 into a pair of two room plan estate cottages, the right hand (west) room of No 352 appears to be a C19 addition.

EXTERIOR: one storey and attic. Symmetrical four window north front, the attic windows in gables. All in chamfered blue-brick openings with hoodmoulds; ground floor three-light, first floor two-light C19 casements. Two doorways in similar openings and with plank doors with cover moulds. At rear (south) gable to left and right, casement windows and small red brick single storey wing at centre.

INTERIOR: the box-frame structure is exposed internally, jowled posts, some straight tension braces, partition walls with tie-beams and collars, large side purlins on backs of principals, wall plates and cannon rafters intact resting on diagonal ridgepiece; some mortices for missing windbraces. Floors supported on chamfered axial beams; the beam in the left hand room of No 352 has straight cut stop at one end and is supported on applied console bracket with carved lozenge pendants. Central axial stack between the two cottages has back-to-back fireplaces with high chamfered timber lintels.

Listing NGR: SP3342490967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552582

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Recommended Books

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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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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)