Description

AVEBURY

SU1070 SOUTH STREET
1378/11/10001 Avebury Truslow
15-FEB-01 Vine Cottage

GV II

Pair of attached cottages, converted into one house. Circa early C18; remodelled circa early-mid C19; altered later C20. Coursed stone and stone rubble with dressed stone quoins and brick window dressings. Thatched roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack.
PLAN: C18 house converted in early-mid C19 into pair of attached cottages, each cottage with back-to-back fireplace in central axial stack heating kitchen and with unheated service room at either end. Converted into one house in C20.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front; casements with glazing bars, outer 1-light, centre 3-light casements, with brick dressings, ground floor with cambered arches; doorway to left and right of centre, the left with early C19 flush-panel door, the right with C20 glazed door. Rear [N] blind, except for two small single-light windows under eaves with wrought-iron casements with leaded panes.
INTERIOR: Partitions between principal rooms and end rooms, the left breached, the right removed and staircase at right [E] end removed. Plaster ceiling in left [W] end removed exposing joists. Brick fireplace in right-hand room with cambered brick arch. C19 roof structure has pole rafters and purlins braced apart by collars with birdsmouth joints.

Listing NGR: SU0944669470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561184

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)