Description

ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD SS 53 19 IN THE WOOD 23/248 Nos 5, 6, 7 and 8 including front - railings

GV II

Row of 4 former estate cottages. Circa 1877 for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. Snecked grey limestone with ashlar quoins and including bands of red sandstone ahslar stone stacks and ashlar chimneyshafts including projecting bands of red sandstone; slate roof, No. 8 still has original scallop-shaped slates. Plan: Row of 4 contemporary cottages facing east. They number 5-8 from left to right and each end pair are a mirror image of the other. Each cottage is 1 room wide and 2 rooms deep. 2 central axial stacks between Nos. 6 and 7 serve back-to-back fireplaces and Nos. 5 and 8 are served by projecting end stacks. The ends are articulated like crosswings and project very slightly forward. 2 storeys with single storey service outshots to rear. Exterior: Symmetrical 1:2:1-window front. The ground floor windows and the outer first floor windows have low segmental arches over of alternate red and grey voussoirs, the ground floor ones with projecting keystones. The centre 2 first floor windows have arch-headed relieving arches over of similar voussoirs and there are gables over them. Nos. 5 and 6 and Nos. 7 and 8 have paired doorways sharing the same gabled porch; Tudor arch doorways containing original part-glazed plank doors and in each gable a cross of red sandstone. Band of red sandstone across the front at first floor level. The gables over each end bay, the inner first floor windows and the porches have open shaped bargeboards, and the crosswings have gables to rear. Interiors: not inspected but if the exteriors are anything to go by No. 8 is the best preserved. A narrow strip of ground along the front is enclosed by original cast iron railings; plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials. Original gates in the same style. This was a Rolle estate village. The big house, Stevenstone Court (q.v.), now ruined, was rebuilt in 1872-3 and the whole village including the Church of St Giles (q.v.) was remodelled soon afterwards.

Listing NGR: SS5339319101

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