Description

KEGWORTH LONDON ROAD
SK 4826-4926
11/126 No 40 (Friends Cottage)
- and short length of wall
attached to SE corner
- II

House, at one time used as Quakers' meeting place. Mid C18, refurbished C20.
Red brick on rendered plinth, C20 plain tile roof with brick gable copings,
brick chimneys, to centre of road front and between left bays of south front.
Repointed C20. L-plan with stairs and outshot in rear angle. 2 storeys and
cellar, 3 bays to south. Corbelled dentil eaves. South front has wooden cross
casements, all renewed C20, with original gauged brick heads and painted key-
stones. Central C20 door with rectangular fanlight, similar head, and C20 flat
wooden hood on brackets. Front to road has 2 bays of windows of the same type,
and a cellar window. Interior altered. Attached to SE corner of house is a
short length of late C18-early C19 garden wall, of brick, with rounded brick and
stone coping, ramped down to gate.

Listing NGR: SK4876826441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643348

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings