Description

LITTLE RISSINGTON LITTLE RISSINGTON VILLAGE SP 1819-1919 8/241 Porch Cottage and outbuildings at rear (now incorporating 25.8.60 building formerly listed as Cottage (resembling dovecot) etc) GV II One of a pair of cottages, (originally one house), formerly partly a dovecote. Late C17-early C18. Cottage; coursed roughly squared and dressed limestone. Dovecote/cottage; bands of orange and cream coloured limestone, coursed and roughly squared with dressed stone quoins, further outbuildings at right angles adjoining Wisteria Cottage (q.v.). Stone slate roof to main body, concrete tile and corrugated asbestos to the extensions at the rear. Ashlar stack and stump of ashlar stack; C20 artificial stone stack. Rectangular plan with lean-to extension with concrete tile roof at rear. Cottage; 2 storeys. Dovecote; 1 1/2 storeys with forward facing gable. Single double-chamfered, 3-light stone-mullioned casement with stopped hood to the cottage. Similar 3-light casement to gable and ground floor of the dovecote/cottage. Two C20 glazed doors to the ground floor. Open-sided C20 porch with weatherboarded gable (porch with stone pillars modelled on turned woodwork mentioned in previous list description removed c1950). Three-light wooden casement between the two doorways. Blocked pigeon holes and projecting landing platforms to forward facing gable, similar holes and landing platforms to the left gable end. Blocked window towards the apex of the left-hand gable. Two-storey extension at right angles at rear formerly used to house bull. Stable type door with timber lintel to the ground floor, small shuttered opening with a timber lintel to upper right. Single- storey store with early vertical planking with fillets at the front to left. The early plank boarding at the front of these outbuildings is a rare survival. Interior of house not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP1908919874

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