Description

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1076/0/10017 WEEK LANE
07-APR-04 Lower Week
Weeks Cottage

II
House. Probably C17 with C19 alterations. Stone rubble. Double Roman clay tile roof with gabled ends. Stone rubble gable end stacks with later brick shafts and projecting lateral stack at front with set-offs and integral oven.
PLAN: 3-room plan, the end rooms heated from gable end stacks, the centre room with a lateral stack at the front [south] with an large integral oven. The front doorway to the right of the lateral stack gives directly into the right-hand room. Projections at rear of centre and left rooms, that behind the left room contains a staircase and the larger projection behind the centre room is used as a store. Later outshut at right [east] end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south front with small window openings with timber lintels [windows boarded over at time of inspection]; projecting lateral stack at centre with weathered set-offs and large semi-circular projecting oven to right with slate lean-to roof; plank door to right of oven with open porch with tiled lean-to canopy. Rear [north] wall projects on right. At east end a large single-storey outshut with a tiled lean-to roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670278

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings