Description

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 June 2018.

SP1452
1931-1/7/168

WELFORD-ON-AVON
HIGH STREET (East side)
Virginia Cottage

(Formerly Listed as: MAIN STREET (East side) Virginia Cottage)

02/08/72

GV
II
House. C17 with extensive 1990 restoration. Timber-frame with plastered infill on rubble plinth; steeply pitched thatched roof with brick end stacks, that to right is large and extends to front and rear; 1990 brick wing with tile roof. Two unit plan with C20 wing to left.

EXTERIOR: single-storey plus attic; two window range. Central entrance has C20 door. Flanking windows have C20 leaded casements; small light to fireplace to right end; wing has window with leaded casement. Square framing. Rear has entrance with C20 door and flanking windows with C20 leaded casements; two raking dormers have earlier two light leaded casements. Stack to left end has hipped off-set with tile roof and small light. C20 wing projects to right.

INTERIOR: noted as having flag floor, exposed beams and timber-framed cross walls; C20 fireplace with bressumer and spiral staircase.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662876

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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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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5