Description

HOW HILL, Twerton
656-1/0/0 (North side)

Hope Cottage
05/08/75
II

Detached house. C18 origins, but extended and modified in early C19.
MATERIALS: Square block or rubble, some rendering, double Roman tile, some concrete tile roof.
PLAN: Original building was L-plan, with gable towards street, later range was added parallel with street. Lower flat roofed extension links to adjacent row of cottages at rear.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys. Main front faces east, and has plain gable, then set back main range has two two-light stone mullioned casements with horizontal bars, above similar three-light, with drip course, and, in internal angle, square flat roofed porch with crenellations over C20 door with side-light, inner door glazed, with margin panes. Further right flat roofed link, with two C19 doors. West front has coped gable with stack, above two-light with mullion and C20 steel casement. Slightly set back, middle section has late C20 light in hipped half-dormer over two-light with horizontal bars, main gable, with canted sash bay with lead hipped roof. At far left further door in low link block. Street front has two six-pane sashes in raised plat surrounds above two French doors. Gables coped, each with stack.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7233964778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674730

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)