Description

BEAUCHAMP LANE, 1. 5353 COWLEY SP50 SW 26/87 (west side) No 11 (Benson Cottage) II GV 2. House. 2nd ½ C17; altered. Rubblestone; C20 tile roof; rebuilt brick stacks. Central lobby entrance with unheated room to rear. 2 storeys with attic; 3 bays; C20 single-storey kitchen wing addition to rear right not of special interest. Entrance, to left of centre, has C20 part-glazed door in wide opening with deep canopy on scrolled brackets, and 2-light window above. 3-light windows to flanking bays. Windows all with timber lintels and C20 casements. Quoin-like stones to doorway and left-hand ground-floor window. A horizontal timber to right on ground floor. End stacks. Rear: various C20 windows; sky- light to roof. Right return: small attic window. Interior: in right-hand room, inglenook fireplace with chamfered timber bressummer and chamfered quoins; wooden seat inside on right and, on left, bread oven with stone voussoirs, brick lining, and flue below. Chamfered spine beams, that to lst-floor right-hand room with stepped cyma stops. Splayed window reveals; wooden mullions to outer lst-floor windows at front. Plank and 4-panel doors. Central straight-flight stair (with winders at bottom) has C19 balustrade. Original tie-beams, but other roof timbers C20. In attic, right-hand stack rises, semi-circular on plan, of stone with brick at top.

Listing NGR: SP5400203796

External Links

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