Description

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ODIHAM
SU7374SO ALTON ROAD

(East side (off))
17/10006 Chalk Pit Cottages

GV II

Two cottages, formerly part of terrace of four. Early C19 with
C19 and C20 alterations. Reconstituted chalk on flint plinth
with some brick rendered with limewash and chalk slurry; rear
(east) wall largely rebuilt in concrete block c1968; south
(right gable) wall rebuilt in brick 1960s, when 2 cottages
further south demolished and painted 1993. Roof of plain tile,
half-hipped at left end; brick chimney with 2 terracotta pots.
The 2 remaining cottages are paired mirror-images, each of 2
cells, with shared stack, at front and rear of which the
stairs were positioned. Formerly there was a pedestrian
through-passage at the right side of the right-hand cottage.
They are of one storey with attic. Each has an off-centre old
board door, that on left with cover strips, flanked by 2-light
windows. Until mid-late C20 these had diamond-leaded
casements; now 2-pane lights. The right-hand window smaller,
with 4-pane lights. Rafter feet visible at eaves. Each cottage
has a small central gabled dormer, with a 2-light window
(formerly leaded), brick gable and narrow wooden bargeboards.
Chimney has brick band. Rear: largely rebuilt. Left-hand
cottage has paired 2-pane windows to upper floor. At right
side of former throughway wall is rounded and of header-bond
brickwork. Left-hand gable: attic storey recessed slightly and
having a wooden-pegged wood-framed window of 2 lights with
diamond leading tied to iron staddle bars, the left-hand light
an opening casement. Right-hand gable: rebuilt with double
garage door. INTERIOR: brick paving; wooden floorboards to
attic; partition walls of plastered laths and of
light-scantling timber framing with brick infill, plastered.
Board doors with old fittings. Chimney has timber bressumers
to fireplaces, that in right-hand (southern) cottage retaining
probably C19 cast-iron range, pot hood and chain. Left-hand
cottage retains upper section of dog-leg wooden stair and the
gable window has iron catch and chamfered wooden mullion. The
roof is underdrawn and plastered; it appears to be of paired
rafter construction with collard.
The cottages line the entrance to Odiham Chalk Pit, which is
featured on a map of 1739 (located in the church). The
cottages themselves do not appear on this map.
They are among only a few chalk buildings in Odiham and, along
with these, they are believed to represent the easternmost
extremity of the use of reconstituted chalk in southern
England (G. Pearson, report).

Listing NGR: SU7375650906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562090

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)