Description

LONG MARSTON

SP1548 MAIN STREET
1912-1/13/100 (West side)
06/02/52 Orchard Cottages

GV II

Pair of houses. C17 with later alterations and ex-situ C14
window. Timber-frame with plaster infill and brick addition to
right end; coursed rubble wing; steeply pitched renewed tile
roof with 2 brick stacks to front of ridge and end stacks.
L-plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance
to left of centre has C20 porch to studded plank door;
entrance to right end has plank door in pegged frame. Ground
floor has three 3-light casements, one C20, others with small
panes and iron opening casements; 3 gabled dormers have
2-light casements with mostly leaded glazing, but one with
small-paned light; lean-to rubble oven projection to right of
centre. Wing breaking forward to left has coped gable with
fleuron, 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window with iron
opening casement, and 1st floor traceried 2-light C14 window.
Left return has 1950s addition to left end; entrance to right
of centre has timber lean-to porch and plank door; entrance to
C20 left end. Window to each floor to left end with C20
casements, recessed chamfered-mullioned windows of 2 lights
and 4 lights flank entrance, that of 2 lights being truncated
by entrance; 2-light and 3-light casements with iron opening
casements above, the 3-light casement with moulded timber
lintel.
Rear has C20 flat-roofed outshut with 2-light leaded casement
to 1st floor window; projecting single-storey brick wing to
left has segmental-headed windows to ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having exposed beams.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 416).

Listing NGR: SP1527448236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662640

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