11 And 13, Main Street

NEWTOWN LINFORD MAIN STREET SK 50 NW (North East Side) 5/39 Nos. 11 and 13 GV II 2 cottages of C17/C18 with c1800 wing. Red brick with granite rubblestone and remains of timber framing. C20 plain tile roof with rebuilt central ridge and right gable end stacks. Long range of 2 storeys of casements with stone cross wing on right end, gable facing. No. 11 to right with door and 2-light casement above and 3-light casement both floors to right. Remains of framing here with brick nogging, some renewed. Gable has renewed 3-light casement with top lights, mullion and transom window above with attic 2-light casment. Cambered lintels to wing and ground floor. Wing restored with renewed shouldered brick coped gable. No. 13 has door to left with 2 3-light casements and 2-light casement above. Casements, doors, and outshut to rear. Beams, inglenook and pair of cruck blades visible inside No. 11. Group value with Nos. 9 and 15. No. 11 is almost : certainly the 'Rose Cottage' referred to in Webster V.R.,Cruck Framed Buildings of Leicestershire, Transactions L.A.S.,Vol. xxx (1954) P.28.

Listing NGR: SK5199709905