Description

CROMER

892/0/10020 LOUDEN ROAD
14-SEP-04 Holly Cottage

GV II
House. Late C18. Whole flints with red brick dressings to lower half of walls, red brick above, the front elevation plastered and colourwashed. Roof of dark glazed pantiles with coped gables and the front with low parapet. Gault brick end stacks. Originally central entrance plan, now entrance to side where house is gable-end onto street. Full length rear outshut. 2 storeys. Front faces garden to right: a 3-window range at 1st floor of 3 6/6 sashes. To ground floor a 6/6 sash with some crown glass either side a central 6/6 sash with arched head. Decorative head to arch. The parapet corners above are made a feature with short elements of cornice and stone-topped kneelers above. Gable end to street has part-glazed door with moulded wooden doorcase and window to right. A 6/6 sash over. Rear is blank. Left end has single storey service wing with C20 part-glazed door and window.
INTERIOR retains a small open-well staircase, the balustrade with tuned newel,stick balusters and ramped handrail. Elaborately shaped tread ends. Low cupboard under stair has raised and field panels and H and HL hinges. A bedroom has contemporary fireplace with wooden surround and cast-iron grate. Softwood butt-purlin roof with collars and carpenter's marks. Under the small service wing is a low cellar with curved brick vault and shallow arched bins to sides.
HISTORY. A Mr.Francis Pank and his sister bought the property on 6 October 1794 and it is likely that the house already existed. It was subsequently known as Pank's Lodge and owned by several members of the family. It has been known as Holly Cottage since at least 1848.
This is a comparatively little-altered house of the period with internal features surviving and one which forms a good group with West Cottage (q.v.) next door.

Cromer Museum: research notes.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670457

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)