Summary

Single-unit cottage built in the second half of the C18.

Description

Single-unit cottage built in the second half of the C18.

MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble from the local Ketton quarry with a Collyweston slate roof laid to courses and a beige brick end stack.

PLAN: the cottage is located on the north side of The Green. It has a rectangular plan including a late C20 extension on the south gable end.

EXTERIOR: 17 The Green is a small single-unit cottage of one storey and an attic under a pitched roof with a late C20 ridge stack on the south gable. The north gable end, which faces onto The Green, is lit at attic level by a small, two-light wooden casement window of C20 date under an oak lintel, just left of centre. On the east elevation a former door has been blocked up with coursed limestone and replaced by a wooden two-leaf casement window, also under an oak lintel. The C20 shallow gabled porch hood, supported by metal brackets, indicates it was a former entrance. Above, there is a gabled dormer wholly in the roof space. The west elevation is lit by a sliding sash window, also with an oak lintel. The recessed coursed limestone below the window indicates that a door had formerly occupied this position. A circular tie-plate is positioned above the window. All the fenestration dates to the late C20.

The single-storey extension is also of coursed limestone with a Collyweston slate roof. It is lit on three sides by wooden casements with oak lintels and tiled sills, and has a door on the west elevation. The stone plaque on the south gable is inscribed with the date 1995 and the initials CDN (for the builder Charles Naylor).

INTERIOR: the simple interior consists of one ground-floor room and one attic room. A straight-flight staircase is positioned along the north wall and a coursed rubblestone chimneybreast with a log burner is on the south wall. The projecting chimney breast extends up to the attic. The roof structure is not visible, being covered by plaster. The late C20 south extension contains a kitchen and bathroom.

History

Ketton is a large village on the main road from Uppingham to Stamford, about four miles from the latter town, full of buildings constructed of the famous butter-coloured local limestone. Quarrying began in the late C13 but was not established until the C17 and C18. At this time the village grew out of the historic core along the High Street towards Stamford, infilling around many of the earlier hamlets such as Home Farm and Manor Farm. The parish was enclosed in 1768. In the same year a ‘Plan of the Manor of Ketton in the County of Rutland’ was drawn up, showing a small building on the site of 17 The Green, which was probably built from the mid-C18 onwards. Historically this was the location of the village pinfold and green, around which was arranged a cluster of predominantly C18 detached and terraced cottages, although most of the original pinfold green was infilled sometime after enclosure. In the mid-1990s a small single-storey extension was built onto the south gable end of 17 The Green to form a kitchen and bathroom.

Reasons for Listing

17 The Green, a single-unit cottage built in the second half of the C18, is listed for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* it is rare survival of a modest single-room dwelling, providing an important illustration of how many of our ancestors lived;

* it is an integral building in its locality, having been constructed using the renowned local limestone from the Ketton quarries and the stone slates from the nearby Collyweston quarries, building materials highly valued for their excellent properties as building stone and for their exceptional aesthetic qualities.

Group value:

* it is located near to many listed buildings, with which it has strong group value, and it makes a significant contribution to the vernacular character of the village.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552860

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  For the Record