Paradise Cottage West And Paradise Cottage East

TA 1001-1101 CAISTOR CHURCH FOLLY

9/42 Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage 21-10-76 East (Formerly listed as No's 1, 2 and 3 Paradise Row)

G.V. II

Row of 2 houses, early C19, coursed ironstone rubble, red brick (English Garden Wall Bond of 3) pantiled roof, stone coped gables and kneelers with 2 ridge stacks, brick front has been toothed into ironstone gable at the left hand end. 3 storey, 6 bays on ground floor, 4 bays on first floor front, brick dentillated eaves course. On the ground floor is a central glazed C20 door with 3 pane overlight. Flanked by a pair of glazing bar sashes and a glazed door and the door on the right is covered by a C20 glazed porch. First floor has 4 glazing bar sashes, second floor has 4 smaller glazing bar sashes. All openings have brick segmental heads. Interior has 2 Cl9 cast iron ranges in plain surrounds with bracketed mantels and upstairs 2 bath grates. Lime ash floors. External stone walls at rear and gables are three feet thick with very large quoins and some chalk patching at a high level. There is a local tradition that the building was originally a tithe barn, but this seems improbable in view of its narrowness, height and absence of large side opening at rear.

Listing NGR: TA1171301295