Description

DUNSFORD BUTTS
SX 88 NW
6/41 Cleve Cottage

GV II

House and garden wall to the south. Late C17/early C18. Stone to first floor level,
cob above, whitewashed and rendered; thatched roof half-hipped at left end, half-
hipped at right end; slate roof to right end addition, left gable end stack with
brick shaft, similar axial stack.
2-room plan cottage, the larger hall/kitchen to the right heated by a fireplace on
the left side of the room in an axial stack. Smaller unheated room to the left has
possibly later stack in the end wall. At the right is a 1-room plan later addition.
It is not clear whether the cottage adjoining Cleve Cottage at the north (qv) at
right angles was ever part of the same property.
2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front with a front door into the half-room at the left
and a second entrance into the slate-roofed addition at the right end. 2-light C20
casement windows, the 2 ground floor windows with timber lintels.
Interior The hall/parlour has a roll-moulded cross beam and an open fireplace with a
cambered moulded lintel.
A whitewashed rendered cob garden wall with tile capping to the garden to the south
of Cleve Cottage is adjacent to Butts.

Listing NGR: SX8076889275

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576743

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014