Description

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SU 90 SE MIDDLETON ON SEA ELMER ROAD

15/387 High Kettle Cottage

- II

Cottage. Late C17 or early C18 altered in C20. Flint faced with brick quoins and
window dressings (now painted). End brick chimneystack to right with flat slab
on top. Thatched roof hipped to left swept over porch to left and forming eyebrow
dormer to right. 1 storey and attic , 1 window. Attic window is C20. 3-light
casement with diamond mullions. Ground floor has similar window with hoodmoulding.
C20 painted brick porch to left with plank door and side lights. 3 triangular
buttresses. Right side elevation has 2 small windows each side of the fireplace
with wooden surrounds and leaded lights and 1 brick and flint buttress. Left side
elevation has 4 similar windows and a deep plinth. Rear elevation has flat roofed
extension to ground floor in matching materials and one C20 3-light dormer.
Interior not inspected but exposed ceiling beams and framing reported. Thought
to have had connections with smuggling, a kettle reputed to have been hoisted on
the chimney when the coast was clear, hence the name.

Listing NGR: SU9807400199

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564123

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]