Joyces And Hope Pole Cottage

SO 74 SW COLWALL CP STOWE LANE (Colwall Green)

3/86 Joyce and Hope Pole Cottage

18.11.52

GV II

House. C17 - mid C18. Timber-framed rear range and C18 brick addition. Rear Range: brick infill panels, plain tiled roof half-hipped to left. Very large local type external stone chimney with oven to left centre of rear wall, gabled single storey timber-framed extension, possibly C18, to second bay from left; C20 flat-roofed single storey extension to rear left. One storey and attic, 5 bays, masked 2-bay cross-wing to rear right, 2 dormers to right of front, C19 and C20 casements irregularly placed, front entrance through ledged C10 door at junction with C18 addition: brick, modillion cornice, tiled hipped roof, tall panelled stack with its own cornice at front left corner. 2 storeys and attic, 2 x 3 bays, casements to ground storey; deeper cruciform casements to first storey: some temporarily blind; one attic dormer to left, C20 entrance to rear right side. Former linking block, now staircase block, in same style, at rear left. Interior of C18 block: in upper left front room late C18 - early C19 angled cast-iron fire basket with urns and swags as decoration to surrounds; C18 ledged oak door to attic: 2 pairs of upper crucks to raised collars, one cruck to the middle of each of the 4 walls to support roof hips. The eerie dominance of the C18 addition is heightened by the piano nobile effect of its fenestration.

Listing NGR: SO7498141836