Description

TL 73 NE SIBLE HEDINGHAM YELDHAM ROAD
2/331 Rookwoods Cottage
(Sometimes known as
Coachman's Cottage)

GV II

Lodge Cottage. Circa 1888. Red brick with red plain tiled roof and pierced ridge
tiles. Moulded brick coping to parapet verges. Rear red brick chimney stack. 2
storeys. 3 window range to first floor with central plain casement. 2 range to
ground floor of vertically sliding sashes, the top sash with glazing bars. This
Queen Anne style building is notable for the moulded brickwork which is similar to
another Lodge Cottage approx. 30 metres south and listed q.v. 2/330. Dentilled and
moulded eaves cornice with hexaglyph and roundel band under. Three string courses.
All follow through return walls. First floor windows right and left with gauged
brick arches and floral motif to keystone. Ornate forward ground floor window
surrounds continue to first floor cills with fleuron panels below ground floor cills
and swags below first floor cills. Chamfered mouldings to windows. Central oval
date plaque with intertwined 1888 between fluted pilasters, frieze with floral
keystone and enrichments to pediment. Return walls with eaves height pilaster strips
to right and left of central ground floor windows. Similar ornate framing to windows
but with small fleuron panels over, horizontal swag and roundel panels and vertical
flower vase panels. Gables with moulded surrounds and canopies to fleuron panels.
Included as a particularly good example of moulded brickwork in Queen Anne style.

Listing NGR: TL7768735029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26566046

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings