Description

SJ 60 NW; 2/106

LEIGHTON AND EATON,
LEIGHTON CONSTANTINE C.P.,
Town's End Cottage

GV

II

Cottage. Early C17, re-modelled and extended mid C19. Timber-framed
with painted brick infill, purplish brown brick additions, machine
tile roof with fishscale bands and ornamental cresting, fretted
bargeboards and pointed finials to gables. Original T-plan with gable
projecting to front; single-storey mid-C19 addition to rear. One
storey and attic; framing: square and rectangular panels, two from
cill to wall-plate with short straight tension braces, jowled wall
posts and V-struts from collar to left gable end, three square panels to
front gable and V-struts from collar; mid-C19 fenestration, cast-
iron patterned casements, one to left and one to right of front gable,
which also has patterned casement above ledged door, one gabled eaves
dormer with fretted bargeboard and pointed finial to left of front
gable; integral yellow brick stack with twin diamond shafts to left
gable end and similar external stack (incorporating part of an earlier
stack) to right gable end. Interior: not inspected but likely to be
of interest.

Listing NGR: SJ6099905666

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594793

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  For the Record
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)