Description

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3443-3543 UPPER CLATFORD FOUNDRY ROAD

11/30 Anna Valley
(South Side)

Wressle Cottage

II

Detached cottage. Apparently a C19 renovation of a C17 2-room house. Partly timber
framed with brick infill and rendered panels, with brick and flint walling to each end;
half-nipped thatched roof, brick chimney stack. Two-storey front with 2 bays, and
single-storey extension to west gable. Rendered plinth: mostly cast-iron window case-
ments, with 2-light 24-pane window set in segmental brick arch lower bay 1, 3-light
36-pane to bay 2 set within timber frame, upper bay 2 a 2-light 24-pane window; upper
bay 1 has a later Cl9 small-pane timber casement: between bays a boarded door with C20
timber porch and cast-iron step/threshold. Extension has Welsh slate roof and additional
chimney stack, with larger 2-light 24-pane cast iron casement set in segmental arched
opening, and boarded door in similar opening bay 2; between these another blocked doorway.
East elevation has exposed timber frame and rendered panels to first floor. Rear
elevation has bonded brick and flint work and 2 further cast-iron windows as well as C20
timber casements, at upper level set in flat roofed dormers. Interior little changed
from early/mid C19; dog-leg stair partly reconstructed but in original position, as are
the first floor partitions, some-timber framed, some matchboarded; wide fireplace with
indication of oven having timber bressumer; some timber framing exposed internally. Queen
post with curved tension braces and chamfered spine beam with runout stops. Series of
C19 plank doors. The cast-iron elements of considerable local interest, the foundry of
Tasker Brothers c1813-1985, was located only a few yards away, and these elements
presumed to be of local manufacture. -

Listing NGR: SU3419941926

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567917

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