Honeysuckle Cottage

LYNDON SK 90 SW CHURCH ROAD (West Side)

6/149 No. 5 (Honeysuckle Cottage) (including No 6. Post Office Lane)

GV II

Pair of model cottages. Mid C19. By Henry Roberts. Red brick with stone hood moulds and Collyweston slate roof with brick ornamental ridge stack. 2 storeys of 2 2-light iron-framed casements under 2 gables. 2 similar 3-lights to ground floor. On either end in angle a small C20 flat-roofed porch with part-glazed door. Further similar casements on end gable. Roberts,as architect to the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes,was a pioneer in the field of working-class housing and his designs were published by the Society for landowners and others to use. These cottages are to one of those designs. Curl, J.S., The Life and Work of Henry Roberts 1803-1876, Chichester, 1983, fig. 36. Nos. 14 and 15, The Green (q.v.) are to the same design. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK9093804329