Coquet Lodge Cottages

WARKWORTH WARKWORTH MILL NU 20 NW

10/350 Coquet Lodge Cottages 31.12.69 (Nos. 1 and 2) (formerly listed as "Warkworth Mill or Coquet Lodge")

GV II

House, now divided. Mid C18; outshuts added, and gables and roof rebuilt, in early C19. Large squared stone; outshuts squared rubble with tooled-and- margined quoins and dressings. Pantile roof except for Welsh slates on outshut; 2 stacks rebuilt in brick.

3 storeys, 3 bays, slightly irregular. Boarded door to No. 1 between right bays, with 6-pane casement window above. Other windows to lower floors are 12-pane Yorkshire sashes, ground-floor left set in older blocked door, ground- floor centre and left with external iron bars. Top floor has 2-pane casements set directly beneath eaves. Coped gables. Stepped-and-corniced left end stack; rebuilt stepped-and-banded stacks to ridge and right end. Far left end outshut with boarded door to No. 2.

Left return shows 9-pane casement in outshut; above outshut roof are 12-pane Yorkshire sash and blocked window, and 4-pane casements to top floor. Right return shows boarded 2nd-floor door under timber lintel, with 4-pane casement to right. Rear elevation shows boarded door and 4-variously-glazed windows in outshut; fenestration to upper floors as at front except that lst-floor end windows are blocked.

Interior: Old beams and simple fireplaces; boarded doors.

Formerly the miller's house; the top floor seems to have served as a granary, as shown by the external door and trapdoors for hoists inside.

Listing NGR: NU2386406038