The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1988. House.

The Old Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-foundation-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Country
England
Date first listed
29 November 1988
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

GILMORTON LUTTERWORTH ROAD SP5787 1323-0/8/44 (West side) 29/11/88 The Old Cottage II

House. C17, restored in later C20. Timber-framed with large panels and both straight and curved braces. Plastered brick and wattle and daub infilling. Welsh slate roof. 3-unit plan. One-and-a-half storeys with gabled dormers with barge-boards and finials over. Two brick stacks at ends of roof on front slopes and rear stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of three windows on ground floor, all later C20 wooden casements. Later C20 ribbed half-glazed door to right of centre with small flat wooden hood on brackets over. Interior: timber-framed partitions; large spine beams and joists to ground floor; 3 inglenook fireplaces; some early doors and wide floorboards to 1st. A good example of the local vernacular farmhouse type with plan form and structure intact.

Listing NGR: SP5718587615

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