Description

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME

6/63 Dexter's Cottage

GV II

House. Late C16/early C17, with later alterations including C18 internal alterations
and C20 division, from adjoining houses to left, Tudor Cottage (q.v.). Sandstone
rubble with tiled roof, partly rendered.
This is the lower end of a 3-room and through passage house, the higher end to left
being Tudor Cottage (q.v.). The lower end room was divided to form an entrance hall,
and in the C18 a stair was inserted to the right of the room, to the front, and a
rear wing of one-room plan, with kitchen outshut to rear, was added to the rear of
the room. To the right, a further addition of one-room plan, possibly a late
C18/early C19 dairy. There may originally have been a gable end fireplace to the
lower end room; now a flue remains on the inner side of the dairy.
2 storeys, front has gable end with porch with pitched roof of C20 along whole front,
which also covers the passage entrance to Tudor Cottage to left. The first floor
level is rendered, with a 3-light casement. The rear of the rear wing has 2 single
lights, one to each side of a brick stack; single storey lean-to with hipped roof.
The right side of the wing has C19 glazed door and window opening with splayed brick
head, 2-light and 3-light gabled dormer. The rear of the lower end room has single
light at ground floor and 2 small single lights under eaves, hipped roof. The right
side has half-glazed door and 3-light gabled dormer, end wall rebuilt with brick flue
from former copper. Former stable attached to left, with straight joint between, now
No. 3 The Cottages (q.v.).
Interior The lower end room has stone floor, C18 straight stair to right with turned
balusters. Room to rear has 3 narrow-chamfered beams, with winder stair to left
side, boxed in with late C18 vertical panelling, at first floor with stick balusters.
Rear room at ground floor has cupboard with C18 2-panelled door.

Listing NGR: SX4413952364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614399

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)