17 The Green

Single-unit cottage built in the second half of the C18.

MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble from the local Ketton quarry with a Collyweston slate roof laid to courses and a beige brick end stack.

PLAN: the cottage is located on the north side of The Green. It has a rectangular plan including a late C20 extension on the south gable end.

EXTERIOR: 17 The Green is a small single-unit cottage of one storey and an attic under a pitched roof with a late C20 ridge stack on the south gable. The north gable end, which faces onto The Green, is lit at attic level by a small, two-light wooden casement window of C20 date under an oak lintel, just left of centre. On the east elevation a former door has been blocked up with coursed limestone and replaced by a wooden two-leaf casement window, also under an oak lintel. The C20 shallow gabled porch hood, supported by metal brackets, indicates it was a former entrance. Above, there is a gabled dormer wholly in the roof space. The west elevation is lit by a sliding sash window, also with an oak lintel. The recessed coursed limestone below the window indicates that a door had formerly occupied this position. A circular tie-plate is positioned above the window. All the fenestration dates to the late C20.

The single-storey extension is also of coursed limestone with a Collyweston slate roof. It is lit on three sides by wooden casements with oak lintels and tiled sills, and has a door on the west elevation. The stone plaque on the south gable is inscribed with the date 1995 and the initials CDN (for the builder Charles Naylor).

INTERIOR: the simple interior consists of one ground-floor room and one attic room. A straight-flight staircase is positioned along the north wall and a coursed rubblestone chimneybreast with a log burner is on the south wall. The projecting chimney breast extends up to the attic. The roof structure is not visible, being covered by plaster. The late C20 south extension contains a kitchen and bathroom.