Description

KEMERTON CP UPPER KEMERTON
SO 9437 - 9537
9/93 Priory Garden Cottage
- II

Shown on OS Map as Northwood Cottage.
House. C17 with mid-C19 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and
rendered infill on limestone rubble base, part coursed limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings. Thatched roof, half-hipped at west end, with brick stack at
east end of ridge. Two framed bays aligned east/west, external chimney at
west end with tall detached brick stack. Single storey and attic with dormers.
Framing: mainly three panels from sill to wall-plate; truncated collar and tie-
beam truss with three struts at west end. South front elevation: there is a
3-light chamfered stone mullioned window which has a hoodmould with returns and
C19 casements in the eastern bay and a 2-light C19 casement in the west bay.
Above each bay is an eyebrow dormer with a 2-light casement. The main entrance
in the east bay has a chamfered Tudor-arched head, a hoodmould with returns and
a ledged and battened door. Attic lights in gable end, (there are two chamfered
rectangular lights at the east end which have been blocked). At the rear of the
east bay is a mullioned window similarly detailed to that in the front elevation.
A lean-to addition adjoins the west end with a ledged and battened door in its
south end. Interior: said to have been little altered.

Listing NGR: SO9497637802

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26633219

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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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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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)