Description

SP22SW
6/116

IDBURY
FOSCOT
Shepherds Cottage

GV
II
Cottage. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble; plain tile roof. 2-room plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Two 2-light chamfered mullion windows directly below eaves and one to lower left, C20 casement with concrete lintel in position of infilled doorway to right of centre and similar casement with wood lintel to right. Integral ashlar end stack to left with moulded dripstone and capping and integral end stack to right rebuilt late C20. C19 lean-to to left gable end.

Interior. Left ground-floor room has inglenook fireplace with chamfered wood lintel and bread oven to right with C19 cast-iron door bearing maker's emblem (Vale and Co.). C20 lean-to attached to right gable end is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SP2492221904

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649261

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)