Dents Cottage And Railings To Street

SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON PARK STREET (south side) 9/69 No 92 (Dent's Cottage) and railings to street

GV II

House, including railings to street. C18 or earlier, remodelled 1830-5 by H.F. Lockwood of Hull for Joseph Dent. Rendered limestone rubble and brick with sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Cast-iron railings to street with ashlar piers. Plan: 2-rooms with opposed central lobby entries and kitchen extension to east end. Gothick style. Garden Front to south, facing the Park: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical, with single storey 2-bay extension to right. Moulded plinth, stepped buttresses at angles and flanking entrance bay. Enclosed porch has chamfered Tudor-arched entrance with hoodmould, moulded dripstone and low stone-coped gabled roof. Part- glazed pointed inner door with Gothick-style traceried panels and shields. Boldly-carved Dent arms above with motto "Patentia et Perseverentia". Recessed full-height window bays to either side with moulded reveals and twin cinquefoiled lancet windows with glazing bars to each floor, separated by foiled roundels bearing carved letters I D. Hoodmoulds over windows with square flower moulding and curled stops linked to string course below coped parapet which rises to a steep gable with carved finial over entrance bay. Buttresses have pinnacles with gabled finials. Coped gables have similar pinnacles rising from corbelled wall-shafts at gable-ends. Central stack with 4 octagonal shafts. Extension to right has 3 casements, 2 in chamfered reveals, door to right and low-pitched roof with tall central octagonal chimney (former ornate chimney-top now stands in garden). Street front details similar to Garden Front: plinth, buttresses, traceried- panelled door in moulded arch and chamfered reveal with hoodmould, twin ground floor lancets in reveals with hoodmoulds, similar first floor window above entrance, stringcourse and parapet. Gothick-style railings flank entrance and extend between chamfered ashlar posts across street front of cottage. Interior not investigated. Joseph Dent, of Ribstone Hall, York, had the cottage embellished and a tomb erected in the garden (q.v.) in memory of his father Jonathan Dent, a Quaker and notable Winterton eccentric. W. Andrew, History of Winterton, 1836, 19-22. N. Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 426.

Listing NGR: SE9356918420