42, Main Street

SK 91 SW COTTESMORE MAIN STREET (North Side)

7/51A No. 42

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Cottage, formerly pair. Mid C19. By Henry Roberts. Red brick with stone quoins, gable cornice, and dressings and Welsh slate roof with brick and stone ornamental ridge stack. 2 storeys of 2 2-light casements under 2 gables with 2 3-light casements below. On left end in inner angle a 2-light, formerly door, and 1-light, and on right end in inner angle a door and a 1-light. Further 2-light casements on end gables. 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. This cottage, originally a pair, is to one of these designs. Curl, J.S. The Life and Work of Henry Roberts 1805-1876, Chichester, 1983, p. 123 end fig. 41.

Listing NGR: SK9033413656