Description

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9620SW BAFFORD LANE
630-1/36/8 (East side)
14/12/83 No.47
Box Cottage

GV II

House. Centre part c1700, wings mid-late C19. Brick,
pinkish-brown to left section, reddish-brown in English bond
to centre and red with yellow brick chequerwork in its headers
to right, coursed Cotswold stone rubble to left wing at rear,
stone tile roof to left wing otherwise renewed tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with rear wing to
left. Entrance off-centre right a C20 porch with C20 glazed
door. Late C20 windows throughout. Ridge and end stacks, that
to right end renewed. The wing to left projects from a
2-low-storey gabled section slightly angled back from main
front with a 2-light casement window in gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: home of Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate
1933-38.

Listing NGR: SO9619420072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666239

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings